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The Jacques Romano Story – Dr Berthold Eric Schwartz

From Mrs Bessie Mitchell Boehm of New York City

It was during the year 1911 that I first met Mr Romano at a party and he escorted me home.  When we arrived home I told my mother what a wonderful gentleman he was and all the things he could do, so he showed my mother a few of the things………….

At the time of meeting Mr. Romano, I was sixteen years old and Mr. Romano was then about forty-five. His youthfulness, combined with worldly experience, puzzled many of my family's friends. From various sources my family received information that Mr. Romano was about twenty-five when he came to the United States, in 1889.

One phenomenon he produced was to have my mother (while in a hypnotic trance) without contact (hands, feet, etc.), knock on the wall, ceiling, tables, etc. Mr. Romano, in a calm sort of way, would tell my mother to knock on the table as many times as there were people in the room; the knocks would come accordingly.

With the passing of time, Mr. Romano told my mother that she would be able to produce the knocking sounds without his help. It was my mother's pleasure, when she retired, to say goodnight to my dead brother, and immediately there was a knock on the bed's footboard.

I must say Mr. Romano's hypnotic power was wonderful. I can well remember another time when he hypnotized my mother, and she wrote things from the spirit of my brother. We were able to find a box in a vault, after his death, which we knew nothing about.

Another time I was in Massachusetts and I was doing a lot of sailing; I received a letter from my mother telling me to stop going out. I was sure she knew nothing about my sailing at the time, but the spirit of my brother had told her.

Lately I read a newspaper article about Mr. Romano and I telephoned him. We met after forty years, I knew him at once; he seemed unchanged.