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These knocks were also heard by the ladies of the family, then separating for the night, who tried to persuade…

Date of account: Published 1917
Source: Haunted Places in England
Reference: Haunted Places in England · selected passage 74
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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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

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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. The said Elizabeth Hooks says, that although convinced it was from no person out doors, yet she opened the casement to look and, as she expected, found no one;--indeed (being closest to the spot on which the blows were struck) she is sure they were on the door, but how and by whom given she is quite at a loss to conjecture.--And finally the said Elizabeth Hooks states, that at another time, after she had got into her sleeping-room (the whole family besides being in bed, and she herself sitting up working at her needle) she heard noises in the passage leading to the room, like a person walking with a peculiar hop: that she was alarmed, and verily believes it was not occasioned by any member of the family.--This Declaration was made and signed this 18th day of June 1833, before me, Derick Hoste, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Norfolk.

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