The Alleged Haunting of B—— House by Various
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This morning, on coming out of church, I received a letter from
Mr. F----, in which was the following passage:-- "... Miss H----, who slept, I believe, in the room occupied by you when I left, heard sounds of footsteps going round her room, footsteps with the most unmistakable limp in them. Shortly after she heard stories connected with the former owner, who used to go by the name of B----, an aged man [the Major]. She asked if he could be described. 'No,' said her informant; 'the only thing he could remember about him was that he had a most peculiar limp,' and he forthwith gave an exhibition, which tallied exactly with the limp around the bed." In discussing this, Miss Moore and I agreed that, had Miss H---- slept in No. 8 instead of in No. 1, as Mr. F---- supposed, we should have considered these limping sounds as probably identical with those we ourselves had heard. After I had closed my reply to Mr. F----, Miss Moore discovered Miss "B----'s" plan of the house (in the packet of evidence of the H----s' tenancy, see p. 96), which showed that in fact No. 8 _was_ the room referred to. Hence it appears that the room in which Miss H---- heard the footsteps was the same as that in which _we_ heard them. We had been misled by Mr. F---- speaking of "the room you occupied when I left," a mistake on his part, as, though the change had been spoken of, we had not left No. 1. This afternoon Miss Langton experimented with Ouija at Mr. "Q.'s" request. Lord Bute had suggested various test-questions in relation to the |
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