While enthralled in conversation during our customary Sunday evening dinner, at one large New York restaurant, I suddenly stopped and irrelevantly remarked to my spouse, “I wonder how Dr. R. is doing in Pittsburgh.” My guest looked at me much astonished and said: “Why, that is exactly what I have been thinking for the last few seconds! Either you have transferred this thought to me or I have transferred it to you. How can you otherwise explain this strange phenomenon?” I had to admit that I could offer no solution. Our conversation throughout dinner showed not the remotest association to Dr. R., nor, so far as our memories went, had not spoken of him for some time. Being a skeptic, I refused to admit that there was anything mysterious about it, although inwardly I felt quite uncertain. To be frank, I was somewhat mystified.   #RyanPhillippe 1 of 18

However, we did not remain very long in this state of mind, for on looking toward the cloak-room, we were surprised to see Dr. R. closer inspection, however, showed our mistake, but we were struck by the remarkable resemblance of this stranger to Dr. R. From the position of the cloak. Absorbed in our conversation, we had not noticed him consciously, but the visual image had stirred up the association of his double, Dr. R. That we should both have experienced the same thought is also quite natural. The last that we had heard from Dr. R. was that he had taken up private practice in Pittsburgh, and, being aware of the vicissitudes that beset the beginner in private practice, it was quite natural that we should wonder how he was getting along.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 18

What promised to be a supernatural manifestation was thus easily explained on a normal basis; but has we not noticed the stranger before he left the restaurant, it would have been impossible to exclude the mysterious. I venture to say that such simple mechanisms are at the basis of the most complicated telepathic manifestations; at least, that has been my experience in all those cases that were accessible to investigation. To the category of the wonderful and uncanny, we may also add that strange feeling we perceive in certain moments and situations when it seems as if we had already had exactly the same experience, or had previously found ourselves in the same situation. Yet, we are never successful to our efforts to recall clearly those former experiences and situations.  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 18

I know that I follow only the loose colloquial expression when I designate that which stimulates us in such moments as a “feeling.” We undoubtedly deal with a judgment, and, indeed, with a judgment of cognition; but these cases, nevertheless, have a character peculiar to themselves, and besides, we must not ignore the fact that we never recall what we are seeking. A look around the newly renovated property reveals no spinning heads, no blood oozing from beneath carpets, no slime dripping from the walls. Anything but! I awoke one morning to find wooden planks ripped off the wall in the banquet room across from that small room where the mobsters are supposed to be buried. The small storeroom at the back of the lodge kitchen, a room covered with weird design said to have been drawn by devil worshippers, was no longer a vague curiosity. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 18

Ryan was afraid to go in there. Soon he noticed an unpleasant smell coming from a small dark room off the banquet hall. Herbert Mullins, who killed thirteen people, including a priest in a confessional, lived in the mansion during the height of his murderous rampage. Police admire that after the mansion was closed it was the scene of satanic rituals as well as drug dealing. Historians speculate that the building rests on the bones of angry Ohlone Indians. Many report the house—now renovated and reincarnated as a retirement home—is haunted. Thousands of years ago, Ohlones climbed the hill to pay grateful homage to the Sun for its daily return. Most certainly rituals were performed on the hill overlooking the sea where the sun disappeared into darkness each night.  #RyanPhillippe 5 of 18

The known history of the property has its beginnings in the mid-1860s when Dr. Francis M. Kittredge climbed the hill, admired the view and decided to build a house there for his wide. The Kittredge home was a lovely place known for its beautiful gardens, but the owners moved on. There was an attempt to establish a residential hotel, but it failed. Then along came James Phillip Smith, a millionaire, who purchased the building for his family home. He then named the mansion Sunshine Villa. A man with big ideas to match his deep pockets, he turned the house into a community showplace. Surrounded by velvety green lawns and overlooking the San Lorenzo River as well as the sea, the mansion was the site of lavish teas, balls, musicals and banquets for visiting dignitaries.  #RyanPhillippe 6 of 18

The Sunshine Villa reached its apex in Santa Cruz social history when the owners sponsored the Venetian Water Carnival. The river was damned at the Beach Hill curved to form a sparkling lagoon. Electric lights—a rarity in those days—were nicknamed “Rickey” and strung along the banks to highlight the festivities. James Phillip Smith picked up the bill for everything insisting upon the very best, the highest most exalted. In an era when all was elegance, when women were lovely and men dashing, the Sunshine Villa shone and because it was electrified, it was called a “Rickey house” for its bright mystifying lights.  #RyanPhillippe 7 of 18

However, the Smith family moved on, and a series of new owners came and went. No one remaining long. Finally, the mansion was converted once again into a hotel, the McCray. A former resident and owner, Charles Kilpatrick, who lived there until he was nine and then returned in 1977 upon the death of his parents, reports seeing a ghost. “I saw it for the first time when I was six. It was a blue energy cloud that materialized suddenly, growing as big as a gorilla.” To the category of the wonderful and uncanny, we may also add that strange feeling we perceive in certain moments and situations when it seems if we had already had exactly the same experience, or had previously found ourselves in the same situation. Yet we are never successful in our efforts to recall clearly those former experiences and situation.  #RyanPhillippe 8 of 18

I do not know whether this phenomenon of Déjà vu (having already seen this or that) was every seriously offered as proof of a former psychic existence of the individual; but it is certain that psychologist have taken an interest in it, and have attempted to solve the riddle in a multitude of speculative ways. None of the proposed tentative explanations seems right to me, because none takes account of anything but the accompanying manifestations and conditions favoring the phenomenon. Those psychic processes which, according to my observation, are alone responsible for the explanation of Déjà vu phenomenon—namely, the unconscious phantasies—are generally neglected by the psychologist today. I believe that it is wrong to designate the feeling of having experienced something before as an illusion.  #RyanPhillippe 9 of 18

On the contrary, in such moments, something is really touched that we have already experienced only we cannot consciously recall the latter because it never was conscious. In the latter, the feeling of Déjà vu corresponds to the memory of an unconscious phantasy. There are unconscious phantasies (of day-dreams) just as there are similar conscious creations, which everyone knows from personal experience. In 1987 the property was acquired by its present owners. After nearly two years of remodeling and major expansion, which involved lifting the old mansion off its foundation and moving it ten feet, the doors opened on the new Sunshine villa. It has a restaurant-sized dining room, an arts and crafts complex, a beauty salon, and a courtyard with a gazebo.  #RyanPhillippe 10 of 18

The face-lifted villa now resembles a charming confection rising from the grassy hillside. No traces of the dilapidated McCray remain—except…. “The place is haunted,” according to Yevona Thomas, the housekeeper. “I was leaning over cleaning the pool table and something cold came over me, pushing me.” Stacy Smith, a health and wellness coordinator, also reports a chilling experience. “I felt this cold presence. It was like a whisper on my neck, kind of a gentle kiss in a way. Turning, I could see nothing; but I definitely felt a presence close by.” There was mental illness in the old mansion. It got so heavy even drug addicts were uncomfortable there.  #RyanPhillippe 11 of 18

Bonnie Sousa, who used to work nights at the mansion, recalls hearing the sounds of a young woman’s voice calling from the ducts of the gas fireplace used for central heating and seeing blue lights in the blackened hallway. A woman was murdered in the mansion, but it was covered up somehow. She is still “hanging” around, hoping someone will find out about it. There is an “energy vortex” located on the site. The Indians recognized this, but they dealt with it sacredly. We must learn the same. I realize that the object is worthy of the most minute study, but I will here give the analysis of only one case of Déjà vu in which the feeling was characterized by particularly intensity and persistence. #RyanPhillippe 12 of 18

A woman of thirty-seven years asserted that she most distinctly remembered that at the age of twelve and a half, she paid her first visit to the mansion to visit some friends in the country, and as she entered the garden, she immediately had the feeling of having been there before. This feeling was repeated as she went through the living rooms, so that she believed she knew beforehand how big the next room was, what views one could have on looking out of it, etc. However, the belief that his feeling of recognition might have its source in a previous visit to those house and garden, perhaps a visit paid in earliest childhood, was absolutely excluded and disproved by statements from her parents.  #RyanPhillippe 13 of 18

The woman who related to this sought no psychological explanation, but saw on the appearance of this feeling a prophetic reference to the importance which these friends later assumed in her emotional life. On taking into consideration, however, the circumstance under which this phenomenon presented itself to her, we found the way to another conception. When she decided on visiting her friends, she knew that these girls had an only brother who was then seriously ill. In the course of the visit, she actually saw him. She found him looking very badly and thought to herself that he would soon die. However, it happened that her own only brother had a serious attack of diphtheria some months before, and during his illness, she had lived there for weeks with relatives far from her parental home.  #RyanPhillippe 14 18

She believed that her brother was taking part in this visit to the country, imagined even that this was his first long journey since his illness; still, her memory was remarkably indistinct in regard to these points, whereas all other details, and particularly the dress which she wore that day, remained mostly before her eyes. To the initiated, it will not be difficult to conclude from these indications that the expectation of her brother’s death had played a great part in the girl’s mind at the time, and that either it never become conscious or it was more energetically repressed after the favorable issue of the illness. Under other circumstances, she would have been compelled to wear another dress—namely, mourning clothes.  #RyanPhillippe 15 of 18

She found the analogous situation in her friends’ home; their only brother was in danger of an early death, an event that really came to pass in a short time. She might have consciously remembered that she had lived through a similar situation a few months previous, but instead of recalling what was inhibited through repression, she transferred the memory feeling to the locality, to the garden and the hose and merged it into the fausse reconnaissance, namely, that she had already seen everything exactly as it was.  #RyanPhillippe 16 of 18

From the fact of the repression, we may conclude that the former expectation of the death of her brother was not far from evincing the character of a wish-phantasy. She would then have become the only child. In her later neurosis, she suffered in the most intense manner from the fear of losing her parents, behind which the analysis disclosed, as usual, the unconscious wishes the same content. My own experience with Deju vu I can trace in a similar manner to the emotional constellation of the moment. It may be expressed as follows: “That would be another occasion for awakening to certain phantasies (unconscious and unknown) which were formed in me at one time or another as a wish to improve my situation.”  #RyanPhillippee 17 of 18

He goes on to say, “I have been convinced, from my experience as well as that of others, that the inexplicable feeling of familiarity can be referred to unconscious phantasies of which we are unconsciously reminded in an actual situation.” The management of the mansion feel confident they are on the right track. Any presence that might be detected are beneficial, protective one, they believe—with good reason. The reconstruction job that transformed the place was completed 6 October 1989. After months of effort, the building was finally bolted down, fully operational. The next day a massive Earthquake devastated much of Santa Cruz. The Sunshine Villa sustained no damage whatsoever. The Sunshine Villa is located at 80 Front Street, Santa Cruz, 95060.  Telephone: (831) 459-8400.  #RyanPhillippe 18 of 18