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Then it transpired, leaked out through one of the old supers who had worked at the theatre for years, that room 25 had always borne the name of being haunted, and that, excepting in circumstances such as the present, it had invariably been kept locked
Read record →Now had Mayhewe not heard of these two cases, he might have concluded, in spite of feeling sure that he had been in a normal state of mind upon entering the room, that what he had gone through was due merely to an over-excited imagination; but since he now kne
Read record →his story of the old actor's is not correct--if his memory played him false--then of course one must look around for some other solution; and as, apparently, there is no history attached to the Prince Regent Theatre itself, one must assume either that the site
Read record →He made no sound, but, signing to them to follow him, he began to move away with a queer, shambling gait
Read record →They related their experience to the people with whom they were staying, and were then told for the first time that the ruin was well known to be haunted
Read record →It was then extremely old, and as its foundations were faulty, it was thought a severe storm would, sooner or later, completely demolish it
Read record →He wished, he said, to show her a garden which was by far the prettiest in all the country round, and it would not take them more than a quarter of a mile or so out of their way
Read record →This matter was barely settled when Mr
Read record →Now some people are in the habit of seeing faces where others see nothing
Read record →Not troubling now whether he saw the ghost or not, for there was no one to care whether he was good or bad, or what became of him, he slouched through the coombe with his long stride more marked and apparent than usual
Read record →After groping about the hall for some time and knocking over a good few things, he at length put his hands on a match-box, and lighting a candle made straight for the nursery
Read record →"Another clerical friend whom the Parminters called in to exorcise the ghost did, I believe, complete the service; but it had no effect--the thing mounted the wall, just as it had done before, and darting downwards put the exorciser to instant flight
Read record →Now some people think that no one unless he be a member of the Psychical Research Society can know anything of ghosts
Read record →Pelamon is very susceptible to the influence of the superphysical, and is probably far more of a psychic than the majority of those who earn their living as professional mediums
Read record →"In Syderstone Parsonage lives the Rev
Read record →A 'trench' was dug round the back part of the house, and 'borings' were resorted to in all other parts of it to the depth of six or seven feet, completing a chain round the entire buildings, for the purpose of discovering any subterranean communication with th
Read record →If the report of noises heard on other evenings be as much exaggerated as in the report of the noises which five other gentlemen and myself heard on Wednesday evening, the 15th of May, nothing could be better contrived to foster superstition and to aid decepti
Read record →It is true that knocks seemed to be given, or actually were given, on the side-board of a bed whilst Mr
Read record →Stewart, I believe, is willing to afford facility
Read record →These knocks were also heard by the ladies of the family, then separating for the night, who tried to persuade her it was someone knocking at the hall door
Read record →father had on several occasions spoken very gloomily about the parents' sins being visited on their children, and I, too, had noticed that my father at times was very despondent; but I had attributed this despondency merely to moodiness, and at the time pooh-p
Read record →A few minutes later the spirit they have invoked appears, and, simultaneous with its materialisation, the mixture burns a bright green and emits a peculiarly offensive gas
Read record →See, I'm armed." And he pointed significantly to his breast pocket
Read record →It is easy enough to gather what lay at the back of her brain when she used the euphemism 'some means or other.' Life in the south-eastern states of Borneo, from which George Mansfield hails, is held of small account; he at once tumbled to the suggestion, and
Read record →Their shadows, too, were no empty, meaningless daubs, such as one too often sees in pictures, but counterparts, living, breathing counterparts, that, while conveying a sense of the physical, conveyed also a suggestion of the inexplicable
Read record →At times he construed the sounds into real sighings and whisperings, and fancied he could hear his name called, "Casson!
Read record →Griffiths and her evil-faced son were guilty of murder, that, having done away with Wotherall and some other man by means of the stepping-stone, they had deliberately set the same deathtrap for him, and that he had only been saved from falling into it by the a
Read record →13 The Terror of the Dark 14 What is a Ghost?
Read record →HEREWARD CARRINGTON, author of "True Ghost Stories," is well known in this country, and in Europe, as a prominent scientific writer on psychical and occult subjects
Read record →Carrington presents a number of startling cases of this character; but they are not the ordinary "ghost stories"--based on pure fiction, and having no foundation in reality
Read record →The following little book endeavors to bring together a number of "ghost stories" of the more startling and dramatic type,--but stories, nevertheless, which seem to be well authenticated; and which have been obtained, in most instances, at first hand, from the
Read record →The average conception of a Ghost is probably somewhat as follows: That it is a thin, tall figure, wrapped in a sheet, walking about the house, clanking chains behind it, and scaring out of his wits anyone who sees it
Read record →Soon after the above mentioned Society was founded, and material began to be collected, it was found that many cases had to do with haunted houses, many with apparitions, but the greater number of them hinged around the one point--the coincidence of apparition
Read record →It will be remembered that telepathy is the basis of the explanation thus far
Read record →Such is the theory--rather far-fetched, it is true; but certainly the most rational and common-sense so far advanced to explain many of the facts
Read record →Again, it is claimed that ghosts have sometimes been photographed, though very rarely
Read record →It is doubtless this spiritual body which is the true cause of many apparitions--of many ghost stories
Read record →re is the theory that the figures seen in houses of this nature are genuine, outstanding entities--real beings, which are just as real, though less solid and tangible, as any of the living inhabitants of the house
Read record →These apparitions are very perplexing, and raise the question of the immortality of animals--a very vexed question, which has given rise to much discussion
Read record →The second view, opposed to that mentioned above, is this: Someone living in a house has experienced a hallucination, and then seen the same thing over and over again, by reason of auto-suggestion; or, if he moves away, and another tenant takes the house in tu
Read record →In the second place, we immediately surmount the difficulty presented by the ghost's clothes
Read record →The third theory which has been advanced, is an extension of the second
Read record →a peculiar vital emanation or aura or effluence; and that this charges-up or impregnates the material objects in his immediate neighborhood, which soak it up like a sponge, and retain it after being removed from its presence
Read record →Besides these theories, another might be suggested, which has never so far been advanced, so far as I am aware
Read record →It is a mere projection; a shell; a form created by the discarnate spirit, a resemblance, a phantasm
Read record →In other types of haunted houses, physical manifestations take place, though nothing unusual is either seen or heard
Read record →Sometimes one method succeeds, while another fails
Read record →I said: 'Who are you?' but I got no answer
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