Vol. 5, Aqibat, Life After Death 5. Haunted Places
Mohammed Chehl, a simple, unassuming man of ordinary appearance, our greatest spiritualist in India, showed the most wonderful phenomena. He could disconnect railway carriages from a train, leaving as many as he chose with the engine. Sometimes he disconnected all the carriages when the train was starting, leaving the engine to start alone. He never cared to travel in any class but the third. He used often for fun to ask the people sitting in the same railway carriage to show him their tickets, and then he would take the tickets, tear them up, and throw them out of the window in their presence. Everybody was angry and wanted to fight with him. He said to them, "Who has taken your tickets? You have them with you." He said to one, "Look in your turban," to another, "Look again in your pocket," to another, "See in your shoe," to another, "Find it in your sleeve." They were all amused and thought him a wonderful conjurer.
He said to them, "You may think that I hid your tickets and then put them in your pockets by sleight-of-hand, but what do you think of this?" And he put his hand out of the window and asked for a few hundred tickets for Delhi, and a few hundred for Ajmer, and a few hundred for Agra, and he asked them what other stations they wanted. When the train reached the next station there was great excitement. The station-master had just received a telegram saying that all the tickets for those stations had been stolen in a second and nobody knew where they had gone.
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