The Unknown Guest by Maurice Maeterlinck, Supernatural, Ghost

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I had hoped that a single volume would be able to contain the result of these investigations, which, I may say at once, will teach nothing to those who have been over the same ground and which have nothing to recommend them except their sincerity, their impartiality and a certain scrupulous accuracy. But, as I proceeded, I saw the field widening under my feet, so much so that I have been obliged to divide my work into two almost equal parts. The first is now published and is a brief study of veridical apparitions and hallucinations and haunted houses, or, if you will, the phantasms of the living and the dead, of those manifestations which have been oddly and not very appropriately described as "psychometric", of the knowledge of the future: presentiments, omens, premonitions, precognitions and the rest, and lastly of the Elberfeld horses. . . .