The Blue Island: Experiences of a New Arrival Beyond the Veil

2014 Reprint of 1930 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. On April 10 1912 Stead boarded the S.S. Titanic bound from Southampton to New York to take part in a peace congress at Carnegie Hall. On the morning of April 15 the ship struck an iceberg and Stead along with hundreds of others drowned. At that time his daughter Estelle an actress and also a spiritualist was on tour with her own Shakespearean company. Amongst its members was a psychically gifted man named Pardoe Woodman who foretold the disaster as they sat talking after tea. Through Woodmans clairvoyant powers W. T. Stead was able to communicate the messages contained in The Blue Island. Ten years after the Titanic went down Steads daughter Estelle published The Blue Island: Experiences of a New Arrival Beyond the Veil which purported to be a communication with Stead via a medium Pardoe Woodman. In the book Stead described his death at sea and discussed the nature of the afterlife. The manuscript was produced using automatic writing.