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New Face In Hell
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Post by bee on Apr 28, 2014 15:13:26 GMT
Hi folks, For YEARS AND YEARS I've been trying to find a copy of a ghost book that my next door neighbour owned but I have no idea the title or the author. Us kids literally read this book hundreds of times from cover to cover so I do remember certain chapters.
As far as I can remember it had a white paper cover with an sort of 'spidery' sketch of an ethereal lady ghost. Sort of A4-ish in size.
Contents included: Miss Morton sees a Ghost - I remember this very clearly as a heading. Borley Rectory Croglin Grange Lady Hoby the Brown Lady of Rainham Hall.
I realise that these rather famous ghosts have probably appeared in a lot of books!... but I'm also sure there was a sort of gazetteer style list of ghosts and locations in it as well because in this section it very briefly mentioned Jarolen House in Stroud - but not in any detail. (which is where we lived) (Stroud not Jarolen House, how cool would that have been??!) This would have been mid to late 80s. I don't know how new the book was either....!!
If anyone has heard of this one, I would be SOOOOOOO happy! ! Thanks in advance! Bee
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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 28, 2014 15:36:27 GMT
It's a bit of a shot in the dark - but it sounds like the sort of thing Peter Underwood might have done. He did publish a "Gazetteer of British Ghosts" (1971), which has subsequently gone through many different editions.
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Post by nosferatu on Apr 28, 2014 22:58:43 GMT
This it?
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Post by Shrink Proof on Apr 29, 2014 8:55:35 GMT
It's a bit of a shot in the dark - but it sounds like the sort of thing Peter Underwood might have done. He did publish a "Gazetteer of British Ghosts" (1971), which has subsequently gone through many different editions. In a similar vein he did "The Ghost Hunter's Road Book". Was it the same one, retitled?
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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 29, 2014 10:16:28 GMT
It's a bit of a shot in the dark - but it sounds like the sort of thing Peter Underwood might have done. He did publish a "Gazetteer of British Ghosts" (1971), which has subsequently gone through many different editions. In a similar vein he did "The Ghost Hunter's Road Book". Was it the same one, retitled? Not sure. I had a few of his books when I was a kid - the one I remember best was his "Dictionary of the Occult & Supernatural", which had a great after-image inducing illustration that you stared at and then when you looked at a blank surface you saw a face (copy attached). Hours of fun. Attachments:
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Post by Shrink Proof on Apr 29, 2014 16:22:36 GMT
It works! Cool.
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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 29, 2014 17:30:36 GMT
Yeah it is good. So, as a kid I seemed to spend a lot of time playing about with this and thinking about what it all meant. For instance I realized that if the surface that the after-image was "projected" on was close up then the image seemed small, but if the surface was further away the image seemed bigger. I spent hours thinking about that.
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New Face In Hell
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Post by bee on Apr 30, 2014 9:41:38 GMT
Errr I'm not sure. That's not the image I remember - to be honest, I think as a young child that picture would have freaked me out!! ha ha ha. however, now I'm not sure, maybe the front cover was missing? Maybe it was Peter Underwood - I do have a few of his other books. Just annoyed I can't remember more about it. I think there were a few sketchy type drawings inside. I might try and get hold of that Peter Haining book just in case. (if it's available anywhere). Thanks for your suggestions folks!!
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Post by bee on May 8, 2014 9:24:08 GMT
I am now the proud owner of Peter Haining's Ghosts as suggested above. But it's not that one! It's OK it only cost me a couple of quid. Anyone want it?...
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Post by ripper on May 9, 2014 17:21:38 GMT
I suspect that "Miss Morton sees a Ghost" may well be an account of a haunting in Cheltenham--the apparition of a lady in black and holding a hankerchief to her face was seen over a period of about 7 years during the 1880s. It was reported in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research in 1892 by Miss R.C. Morton, the principal witness. However, "Morton" was not her real name; it was actually Roseanna Despard, but this was not disclosed until 1948, though even now it is sometimes still referred to as the Morton ghost or Morton case. There is a very good account of the case in Hauntings and Apparitions (1982) by Andrew Mackenzie, including more recent sightings of the ghost.
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