His story of the old actor's is not correct--if his memory played him false--then of course one must look…
- Date of account
- Published 1917
- Source
- Haunted Places in England
- Reference
- Haunted Places in England · selected passage 45
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
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 of the theatre was haunted prior to the erection of the pre…
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyhis 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 of the theatre was haunted prior to the erection of the present building; or that the ghost was originally attached to some person who once occupied room 25, and that it subsequently left that person and remained in the room; or that some article of furniture in room 25, possibly even a fixture, was imported there from some badly haunted locality. There is, indeed, evidence regarding the first point; evidence that, either on or close to the site of the theatre, the remains of prehistoric animals--animals of a singularly savage species, which makes it more than likely that they met with a violent death--were unearthed; and as ghostly phenomena in the form of animals are quite as common as ghostly phenomena in the form of human beings, the hauntings of room 25 may very possibly be due to the spirit of one or more of these creatures.
Historical context
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Modern context
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