ghostly warnings

Ghostly Warning

This story relates to the year 1879.The British ambassador to France, Lord Dufferin, was holiday with a friend. His friend lived in Ireland.

One night, Lord Dufferin, woke up suddenly from a deep sleep. He had seen something in his dream. But the reason for his waking up was something else. He sat in the bed for time in a state of uneasiness. Then he got up and stood at the window that opened on the lawn and flower garden. In the moonlight, he clearly saw that a man was taking away a heavy coffin on his back.

Lord Dufferin was a courageous man. He came out in the open and stopped the man and asked, “What is inside this coffin.”

The man lifted up his face. It was dreadful. Cheekbones protruded out. The skin of his face and body was like old and dried leather. It seemed that some skeleton had been just covered with leather.

At first glance, Lord Dufferin simply froze out of fear. But he fathered coutage and again asked the figute,”Where are you taking away this coffin this time of night.”

In reply, the man advanced towards Lord Dufferin and simply went through his body.

Lord Dufferin releted his experience to his friends in the morning.Some experts on ghostly matters were also consulted. Interpreters of dreams were also contacred. None could explain the significance or meaning of what Lord Dufferin experienced in the night. Gradually, the incident was forgotten.

Four years after, when this experiesnce had been completely forgotten by Lord Dufferin, he wenr ro a reception at Grand Hotel in paris.

His personal secretary, assistant and orderly were also with him.Lord Dufferin was about to steps inro the lift, then he suddenly stopped.



Suddenly, he remembered the face that he had seen four years back on that night in Ireland. The liftman had the same face. He distinctly remembered that he had seen this man on that night.

He related the incident of that night to his secretary and assistant.In the meantime, the lift went up, without these people. As Lord Dufferin was relating that night’s experience, there was a loud noise. These was an uproar in the hotel. Judt ad the lift reached the fifth floor its wire snapped and it fell down to the basement. All the persons who were in the lift died. Lord Duffin saw the hotel saw the hotel employees and authorities taking out bodies from the debris of the lift. But the body of the person, because of whom Lord Dufferin did not get into the lift, was not found amongst them.

Later on it transpired that the liftman had not come on duty that day.

This incident is treated as a unique case of ghostly warning. In the refernce books of British Society of Psychical Research, it is considered an inexplicable mystery. They have no explanations for it.