HISTORIC GHOSTS
AND
GHOST HUNTERS
HISTORIC GHOSTS |
Copyright, 1908, by
MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY
NEW YORK
Published, September, 1908
The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
To
THE MEMORY OF MY FRIEND
JOHN J. HENRY
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Preface | ix | |
| I. | The Devils of Loudun | 1 |
| II. | The Drummer of Tedworth | 17 |
| III. | The Haunting of the Wesleys | 36 |
| IV. | The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg | 56 |
| V. | The Cock Lane Ghost | 81 |
| VI. | The Ghost Seen by Lord Brougham | 102 |
| VII. | The Seeress of Prevorst | 120 |
| VIII. | The Mysterious Mr. Home | 143 |
| IX. | The Watseka Wonder | 171 |
| X. | A Medieval Ghost Hunter | 198 |
| XI. | Ghost Hunters of Yesterday and To-Day | 216 |
PREFACE
The following pages represent in the main a discussion of certaincelebrated mysteries, as viewed in the light of the discoveries setforth in the writer's earlier work "The Riddle of Personality."
That dealt, it may briefly be recalled, with the achievements of thosescientists whose special endeavor it is to
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