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This last affair is one of several tales of "Phantom Coaches," not only heard but seen, the coach being a coach of the living
Read record →"Spirits of the living" of this kind are common enough
Read record →The letter, after some adventures, arrived, and on 15th March Mr
Read record →These spirits of the living lead to the subject of spirits of the dying
Read record →As there are, undeniably, many examples of hallucinatory appearances of persons in perfect health and ordinary circumstances, the question has been asked whether there are more cases of an apparition coinciding with death than, according to the doctrine of cha
Read record →One thing must be remembered as affecting the theory that the coincidence between the wraith and the death is purely an accident
Read record →On the chair sat G---, looking calmly at me
Read record →The same dog (an intimate friend of my own) bristled up his hair and growled before his master saw the Grey Lady
Read record →Transition to Appearances of the Dead
Read record →When the dead are alleged to exercise a similar power, we have to suppose that some consciousness survives the grave, and manifests itself by causing hallucinations among the living
Read record →This perfectly accountable appearance, in its aimlessness, its unconsciousness, its irresponsiveness, is undeniably just like the common notion of a ghost
Read record →s son) that several legacies which by his testament he had bequeathed were unpaid, naming ten shillings to one and ten shillings to another, both which persons he named to the young man, who replyed that the party he last named was dead, and so it could not be
Read record →At his coming into his master's yard, the horse which he rid, though very poor and out of case, leaped at one spring twenty-five foot, to the amazement of all that saw it
Read record →"The spectre hath shewed great offence at the perriwigs which the young man used to wear, for they are often torn from his head after a very strange manner; one that he esteemed above the rest he put in a small box, and that box he placed in another, which he
Read record →"When the spectre appears in resemblance of her own person, she seems to be habited in the same cloaths and dress which the gentlewoman of the house (her daughter-in-law) hath on at the same time
Read record →was soon missed by his Master and some other servants that had been at labour with him, and after diligent enquiry no news could be heard of him, until at length (near half an hour after) he was heard singing and whistling in a bog or quagmire, where they foun
Read record →Douch makes the warning arrive "some few days" before the murder of Buckingham, and says that the ghost of Sir George, "in his morning gown," bade one Parker tell Buckingham to abandon the expedition to La Rochelle or expect to be murdered
Read record →In Lilly's version the ghost had a habit of walking in Parker's room, and finally bade him tell Buckingham to abstain from certain company, "or else he will come to destruction, and that suddenly"
Read record →Finally, Clarendon makes the appearances set in six months before Felton slew the duke
Read record →Since William Lilly the Rebells Jugler and Mountebank in his malicious and blaspheamous discourse concerning our late Martyred Soveraigne of ever blessed memory (amongst other lyes and falsehoods) imprinted a relation concerning an Aparition which foretold sev
Read record →Then he asked him if he were a Divell
Read record →Towse that he could not but remember ye much kindness that he, ye said Sr George Villiers, had expressed to him whilst he was a Schollar in Leicestershire, as aforesaid, and that as out of that consideration he believed that he loved him and that therefore he
Read record →much trouble and perplexity, debating and reasoning wth
Read record →when he made me this relation, he tolde me that ye Duke would inevitably be destroyed before such a time (wch
Read record →The reader can now take his choice among versions of Sir George Villiers' ghost
Read record →On the night before his speech, that of Wednesday, 24th November, Lyttelton had seen the ghost, and had been told that he would die in three days
Read record →This, literally, is all that is known about Lord Lyttelton's ghost
Read record →Out of seven versions, a bird, or a fluttering noise as of a bird (a common feature in ghost stories), {130a} with a woman following or accompanying, occurs in six
Read record →Lord Lyttelton's health had for some time been bad; he had made his will a few weeks before, and his nights were horror-haunted
Read record →We now examine a ghost with a purpose; he wanted to have his bones buried
Read record →In June, one Alexander Macpherson came to Donald Farquharson, son of the man with whom Davies had been used to lodge
Read record →Alexander Macpherson, in his evidence at the trial, declared that, late in May, 1750, "when he was in bed, a vision appeared to him as of a man clothed in blue, who said, 'I am Sergeant Davies!'"
Read record →Scott, who knew Macintosh, the counsel for the prisoners, says that their advocates and agent "were convinced of their guilt"
Read record →Perhaps the latest ghost in a court of justice (except in cases about the letting of haunted houses) "appeared" at the Aylesbury Petty Session on 22nd August, 1829
Read record →My brother having told the minister of Blair, he and I came to the minister on Monday thereafter, as he was examining in a neighbour's house in the same town where I live
Read record →Andrew's Day, the 1st of December, this David Soutar (the ghost) listed himself a soldier, being very soon after the time the apparition said the murder was committed, and William Soutar declares he had no remembrance of him till that apparition named him as b
Read record →They saw the different regiments with their colours, and recognised many of their friends among the Highlanders
Read record →The literary history of "The Tyrone Ghost" is curious
Read record →She lived to a good old age, in full use of all her faculties, both of body and mind
Read record →I begged from him some convincing sign or proof so that when the morning came I might rely upon it, and feel satisfied that his appearance had been real, and that it was not the phantom of my imagination
Read record →Though I struggled to conquer by every means the passion, I at length yielded to his solicitations, and in a fatal moment for my own peace I became his wife
Read record →He was unmarried, and his family consisted of his mother and sisters
Read record →She wakened, and found the lady of the white shawl bending over her
Read record →Of this story the only conceivable natural explanation is that Mrs
Read record →Ghostly Effects produced by the Living but Absent
Read record →Haunted houses have been familiar to man ever since he has owned a roof to cover his head
Read record →The usual annoyances are apparitions (rare), flying about of objects (not very common), noises of every kind (extremely frequent), groans, screams, footsteps and fire-raising
Read record →Of course this looks as if these noises were unreal, children of the imagination
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