Lord Brougham's vision in the bath
From his bath, Henry Brougham saw his friend G--- sitting calmly on a chair. He wrote the whole thing down at once, dated 19 December.
Henry Brougham and a friend he calls only G--- once made a pact written in their own blood, he says in The Life and Times of Henry Lord Brougham. Whichever of them died first would appear to the other and so settle their doubts about life after death.
Andrew Lang quotes what followed in The Book of Dreams and Ghosts. While taking a bath, Brougham saw G--- sitting on a chair, looking steadily at him. He could not say how he got out of the water. When he came to, he was lying on the floor and the figure was gone. He was shaken enough to write the whole thing down at once, with the date, 19 December, and every detail while it was still clear to him.
"On the chair sat G---, looking calmly at me. How I got out of the bath I know not, but on recovering my senses I found myself sprawling on the floor. The apparition, or whatever it was that had taken the likeness of G---, had disappeared. . . . So strongly was I affected by it that I have here written down the whole history, with the date, 19th December, and all the particulars as they are now fresh before me."
- The Life and Times of Henry Lord Brougham, Written by Himself, Henry Brougham (1871, posthumous), vol. 1, Internet Archive