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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal > Ghosts & poltergeists
Explore the haunted hostelries of Cambridgeshire and experience a
palpable sense of timelessness in the cities, towns and villages
where ghost stories and strange happenings are an integral part of
our folklore. Thumb through a ghostly gazetteer listing over sixty
locations of reported sightings, sounds and sensations. Sightings
of people from the past including Mary Queen of Scots on her way to
Fotheringhay Castle; the highwayman Dick Turpin; the writer Daniel
Defoe; the eighteenth-century murderer Gervase Matcham; poor Mary
Ann Weems, murdered by her husband in 1819; Jeremiah Newell of Ely
who mistook a steaming dunghill for his bed; and Harry `Kirky'
Kirk, employed as assistant to the hangman Albert Pierrepoint.
Reports of a cat walking straight through a wall, of a small hand
print mysteriously appearing on a mirror, of a vase of flowers
flying across the room, a pint glass floating from table to table,
shoe laces untied repeatedly, and tidied up playing cards. Sounds
of persistent knocking, footsteps, rubbing hands, jangling keys,
rattling door latches and beer tankards, of bottles clinking in the
middle of the night, babies crying and of English Civil War troops
amassing. Sensations of cold spots, of an unseen presence close-by
and a tap on the shoulder; the odour of rotting flesh, of pipe
tobacco and of lavender; vibrating beds and tugging at the blankets
by unseen hands. `The Last Round' and `The Old Waterman' Enjoy two
original ghost stories by Trevor Bounford. Compelling tales, not
for the faint-hearted but bound to put you in the right frame of
mind for strange encounters.
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Matt Wingett; Contributions by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Walter Besant, The ghost of Charles Dickens
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