It is that all such apparitional appearances, coincident with a death or not, are equally due to a telepathic force exerted by an agency independent of the percipient.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Types of some of these well-attested and proved cases offered as evidence by Myers may be briefly summarized as follows:-Repeated apparitions indicating intimate acquaintance with some post-mortem fact like the place of burial; single apparitions with knowledge of the affairs of surviving friends, or of the impending death of a survivor, or of spirits of persons dead after the apparition's decease; cases where professed spirits manifest knowledge of their earth-life, as of some secret compact made with survivors; cases of apparitional appearances near a corpse or a grave; occasional cases of the appearance of the dead to several persons collectively.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Also an apparitional boy has recently shown himself to a teacher and her pupils in Newburyport, to the no small disturbance of that place.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam