By: Paranormal News
If you haven’t heard of him, Daniel Dunglas Home was an extremely curious and disruptive figure to the scientific community in the 19th Century who has never been successfully defrauded, but who exactly was he? What were his beliefs? What did he, himself, think, which gave him the power to move objects and communicate with the departed?
According to his autobiographical work “Incidents in My Life” which was published in 1864, Home was born on March 20th of 1833 at Edinburgh in Scotland. He was adopted by his aunt at the ripe old age of one, and headed off to the United States at the age of nine.
As a child, he was an extremely nervous individual and a bit difficult to handle. He also had a number of health problems and was never very good at sports.
The first experiences which involved Home started while he was still in the cradle. It was noted by his aunt that it would occasionally rock back and forth for some unknown reason. At the age of four, he also told his aunt that a cousin who lived a short distance from them had just died, which was later confirmed.
He never thought much about ghosts or the afterlife outside of the context presented to him by the church until the age of 13 when he was reading his Bible in the forest with his friend Edwin who brought up a ghost story about a Lord and a lady. Home told his friend that he hadn’t heard the tale before, but at that point, they both made a pact between one another: the first to die would return and visit the other after the third day of death, and they prayed it would be so–God permit. – Read More
