One of the most intriguing stories of mediumship on record was told
by Hamlin Garland, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, in the last of
his 52 books, The Mystery of the Buried Crosses, published in 1939.
In 1934, shortly after giving a talk on psychic phenomena in Los
Angeles, Garland, a very skeptical researcher, received a letter
from Gregory Parent, a resident of Redlands, California, telling
him of some strange psychic phenomena connected with his wife.,
Violet. They included some 1,500 crosses and other treasures buried
by Indans and unearthed at the direction of her spirit guides as
well as spirit photography. Having had many years of experience
with mediums, Garland decided to find a medium who might get in
touch with the deceased Violet Parent and request her help in
finding additional relics, as Gregory Parent had noted that there
were, according to the spirits, more to be found. Sometime around
July 1937, Garland selected Sophia Williams, an amateur medium who
did not charge for her services, to help him in his search.
Williams was a direct-voice medium and while doing some tests with
her, Garland's "Uncle David," who had been dead for some 30 years,
communicated, Garland asked him if he remembered the old tune he
used to play for him in on his fiddle. Garland then heard the tune
"When you and I were young, Maggie" being whistled and played on a
fiddle. If Williams were a fraud, she would have had to know about
Uncle David, anticipate Garland's question to him about the tune,
and smuggle a fiddle into and out of Garland's home. Many other
evidential voices came through Williams, convincing Garland that
she was a genuine medium. . Soon after Violet Parent communicated,
,Father Junipero Serra, the pioneering California missionary, and
other "Invisibles" communicated. . Under their direction, Garland
and Williams traveled hundreds of miles through southern and
central California and Mexico searching for more artifacts. The
spirits would tell them where to go, where to stop, which direction
to walk, and then where to dig. In total they found 16 crosses,
similar in substance and design to those collected by the Parents,
in 10 widely separated locations. A year after The Mystery of the
Buried Crosses was published, Garland died. . By the time of his
death he had concluded after 40 years of research strongly
suggesting that we do indeed survive physical death.
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