The Alleged Haunting of B- House: Including a Journal Kept During the Tenancy of Colonel Lemesurier Taylor - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1437091520 ISBN 13 : 9781437091526

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

The Alleged Haunting Of B- House is a book written by Adela M. Goodrich-Freer that documents the supposed haunting of B- House, a residence in England. The book includes a journal kept by Colonel Lemesurier Taylor during his tenancy in the house in 1899. The journal details strange occurrences and unexplainable events that Taylor and his family experienced, leading them to believe that the house was haunted. Goodrich-Freer also provides her own analysis of the events and investigates the history of the house and its previous occupants. The book offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of paranormal activity and the human fascination with the supernatural.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

“A singular feature of the case is the intrepidity of most of the witnesses.” -The Athenæum

“The book is a valuable, interesting and bona fide record of very curious phenomena.” -The Spectator

“Remarkably interesting...It may be as well to state at once that this is not a ghost story in the ordinary acceptation of the term, but a sober attempt to investigate the alleged haunting of B___ House, in Perthshire. The investigations were carried out during the past few years but the haunting is supposed to have existed since 1844. The matter has excited considerable general interest owning to the letters on the subject which have appeared in the Times.” -The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record

The audile phenomena were so frequent and so various, that a conspectus of them is given in an appendix. Some of them appeared to be human in origin, such as voices, reading or speaking, footsteps, and, according to earlier witnesses, screams and moans. Others might have been caused by dogs, such as pattering footsteps, jumping and pouncing as in play, the wagging of a dog's tail against the door, and the sound as of a dog throwing itself against the lower panels. Other sounds have been differentiated, as the detonating or explosive noise; the clang sound, as of the striking of metal upon wood; the thud or heavy fall without resonance; and the crash, which was never better described than as if one of the beasts' heads on the staircase wall had fallen into the hall below. It very often, or almost always, seemed to occur under the glass dome which lighted the body of the house, and the falling object seemed to strike others in its descent, so that it was not ineffectively imitated by rolling a bowl along the stone floor of the hall, and allowing it to strike against the doors or pillars, when the peculiar echoing quality was fairly reproduced by the hollow domed roof and surrounding galleries.

The editors offer no conclusions. This volume has been put together, as the house at B---- was taken, not for the establishment of theories, but for the record of facts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1437091520
• ISBN 13: 9781437091526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Éditeur: Goodrich-Freer Adela M, Bute John Patrick Crichton-Stuart
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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