Next morning she saw, what she had not previously observed, a portrait of the spectre in the room.

Mr.Sully explains that she had seen the portrait _unconsciously_, and dreamed of it.

He adds the curious circumstance that other people have had the same experience in the same room, which his explanation does not cover.

The following story is published by the Society for Psychical Research, attested by the seer and her husband, whose real names are known, but not published.

{76} THE VISION AND THE PORTRAIT Mrs.M.writes (December 15, 1891) that before her vision she had heard nothing about hauntings in the house occupied by herself and her husband, and nothing about the family sorrows of her predecessors there.
"One night, on retiring to my bedroom about 11 o'clock, I thought I heard a peculiar moaning sound, and some one sobbing as if in great distress of mind.