On the 1352 evening of the birth of quadruplets sons to the baroness of a Rhine castle, the baron himself entertains a traveler with memories of the coming 80 years.
Michael Main
For you allow that, while ghosts out of the future are unheard of, ghosts from the past are not infrequently encountered.

Variants

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  1. “An Uncommon Sort of Spectre” by Edward Page Mitchell, New York Sun, 30 March 1879.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Edward Page Mitchell