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If the report of noises heard on other evenings be as much exaggerated as in the report of the noises which…

Date of account: Published 1917
Source: Haunted Places in England
Reference: Haunted Places in England · selected passage 68
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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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 deception. I was spending a few days with a friend in the neighbourhood of Syderstone, and was courteously invited by Mr. Stewart to sit up at the Parsonage; but I never imagined the noises I heard during the night would become a subject of general conversation in our city and county. As such is the case, and as I have been so frequently appealed to by personal friends, I hope you will afford the convenience of correcting, through the medium of your journal, some of the errors committed in the reports made of the disturbances which occurred when I was present.

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