Fifty Years a Medium – Chapter 12, 13/13 by Estelle Roberts

Only three or four times have I encountered the psychic phenomenon known as “independent voice.” This is a spirit voice which is heard not through the trumpet or through the mouth of the medium. It emanates seemingly from mid-air, sometimes at a considerable distance from where the medium is sitting. Curiously enough this rare phenomenon occurred on two separate occasions with the same sitter.

He was a man named Sumpter who had come for a private sitting for clairvoyance. We sat together in broad daylight. I was transmitting spirit messages to him when I was interrupted by a strong voice coming from near the ceiling in the far corner of the room. Astonished, we both sat silent, listening. The voice stopped as abruptly as it had come, and Mr. Sumpter said to me, “That was my brother.”

For the next fifteen minutes we discussed what we had heard. I had never known of an instance of independent voice taking place in daylight and readily agreed that he should bring his wife on his next visit, in the hope that it could recur and convince him he was not the victim of hallucination. I reminded him that it was unlikely we should get a “repeat performance,” but he was most anxious to try.

He arrived with his wife some days later and the pattern of the previous sitting repeated itself like magic. The voice came from the same corner of the room, just as though a physical being was speaking, and was clearly heard by all three of us. Though we tried again on other occasions, it was never repeated and these two instances still remain my only experiences of independent voice in daylight.

In a darkened room it is not so rare. I recall an occasion, for instance, where a voice emanated from the region of my hips, and not infrequently at direct-voice séances Red Cloud seems not to bother with the trumpet. His voice may sometimes be heard well away from the trumpet, particularly when some inexperienced spirit communicator is struggling to make himself heard.

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