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Post by dem bones on Feb 19, 2022 9:49:42 GMT
Photo: Marc Damian Lawler Marc Damian Lawler - The Ghosts of St. James' Cemetery: ( Preparing For A Nightmare, originally Before You Blow Out The Candle: Book I, 2019). Bench in the Liverpool burial ground provides ideal vantage point for observing the resident ghosts, including those of a girl pushing a lady in a pram, a murder victim, Victorian artist William Daniels, and Stu "The Fifth Beatle" Sutcliffe.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 14, 2022 15:51:31 GMT
Alan Robson - The Haunted Loveseat of Morpeth: ( Grisly Trails & Ghostly Tales, 1992). .... unless, that is, you fancy your chances against an invisible entity, known to attack any who innocently stop to suck on an iced lolly, read the paper, enjoy the scenery, & Co. The story is that prior to the Great War, the bench was the scene of an extreme attempted mugging, the assailant creeping up behind his resting victim, a Mr. Turnbull, and slitting his gullet. Incredibly, Turnbull held onto his wallet and struggled to the local in clasping his neck together. His unlikely survival obviously upset the knife man, whose hair-pulling, throttling spectre haunts the spot.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 25, 2022 18:35:05 GMT
The Murdered Monk of the Lookout, Rye Felix Kelly The above was provided to Braddock by "a well-known antiquary and scholar of Rye." The source wished to remain anonymous as the experience was not his but that of "a simple soul who once was a cook in a house in Watchbell Street."
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 25, 2022 18:58:16 GMT
The Murdered Monk of the Lookout, Rye Felix Kelly The above was provided to Braddock by "a well-known antiquary and scholar of Rye." The source wished to remain anonymous as the experience was not his but that of "a simple soul who once was a cook in a house in Watchbell Street." E.F. Benson was mayor of Rye in the 1930s. It probably means nothing.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 14, 2022 11:26:18 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Oct 31, 2022 19:35:02 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Nov 11, 2022 14:32:40 GMT
Since Vault's inception c. 1797, many copies of the books mentioned on here have been found in various branches of the Spitalfields Trust Charity shop. Now they've a new card, seems only right to provide a plug, and this thread is appropriate as any.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 23, 2023 8:45:32 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Aug 29, 2023 14:09:34 GMT
Kevin Acott - The Ghost of Tooting Bec Common: Reunion with dead girlfriend (complete with phantom mobile) on a park bench overlooking a football pitch. Smoke: A London Peculiar, Nov. 2014
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Post by helrunar on Aug 29, 2023 15:24:40 GMT
More horror on Tooting Bec Common! The mind reels. Excellent find!
Hel.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 25, 2023 14:45:10 GMT
H. R. Millar Prudence O'Shea - Ghosts!: ( The Bystander Annual, 1 Dec. 1923). Kensington Gardens in the snow, late on December 24th. Angela Hayes, a prolific author of ghost stories for the Christmas numbers, meets genuine article on bench beside hers. The old gentleman bemoans "things aren't the way they used to be ....." A story that would slot comfortably into an Armada Ghost Book. I far prefer the same authors supernatural sex comedy The Merry Ghost.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 19, 2023 6:10:32 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Feb 3, 2024 12:09:48 GMT
H R Wakefield - The Caretaker: ( Strayers from Sheol, 1961). Arguably a borderline case; we've no way of knowing whether the soldier permanently haunts this particular bench on the North Downs, or if Mr. Smith was simply in the wrong place on the wrong afternoon?
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