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Now some people think that no one unless he be a member of the Psychical Research Society can know anything of…

Date of account: Published 1917
Source: Haunted Places in England
Reference: Haunted Places in England · selected passage 60
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Now some people think that no one unless he be a member of the Psychical Research Society can know anything of ghosts

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Now some people think that no one unless he be a member of the Psychical Research Society can know anything of ghosts. That is a fallacy. I have met many people who, although they have had considerable experience in haunted houses, have never set a foot in Hanover Square; and, vice versa, I have met many people who, although they have been members of the Psychical Research Society, have assured me they have never seen a ghost. Pelamon Harrison belongs to the former category. He is by vocation a gentleman undertaker, and he lives in Sussex. Some years ago, after the publication of my novel _For Satan's Sake_, which was very severely criticised in certain of the religious denominational papers, Pelamon Harrison, championing my cause, wrote me rather an interesting letter. I went to see him, and ever since then he has not only supplied me with detailed information of all the hauntings he has come across, but he has at times sent me accounts of his own experiences.

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