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One evening in eighteen eighty five, Sir Geordrey Sitwell was
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celebrating his twenty fifth birthday by holding a party at
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his ancestral residence, Renishore Hall. Not long after the ladies
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of the party had retired to their beds for the night,
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one female guest came back out of her bedroom to
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tell Sitwell that she could not sleep in that room
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he had given her. When he inquired why that was,
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she explained that she had felt something cold kissing her
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in bed. She was the only person staying in that room.
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Sir Sitwell found this rather amusing. However, when his friend
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mister Turnbull heard about this, he had reason to pause
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because mister Turnbull explained that a few years earlier, another
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female guest who had slept in the same bedroom, had
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also asked to move rooms after fleeing her bedroom in
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distress and telling all who would listen to her that
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she'd been lying in bed asleep when she'd been woken
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by something ice cold kissing her on the lips. Still,
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Sitwell was not impressed. He had once been in the
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newspapers for having debunked as seance as fake, and so
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he was a hardened skeptic. He felt that ghosts were
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hallucinations or delirium, especially if her lady reported seeing one.
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Some years later, when renovations were being carried out on
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his ancestral home, workers discovered an empty coffin under the
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floorboards of the room both women had tried to sleep in.
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Who the coffin had been for and why it was
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now empty and hidden under the floorboards has never been solved.
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Glamys Castle was built in the fourteenth century and it's
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where the mother of Queen Elizabeth grew up. Is located
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beside the village of Glamys in Anger's, Scotland and set
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in the Lowland valley of Strathmore, with a land of
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more than forty acres. It has a reputation of being
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extremely haunted by a number of apparitions. The lady of
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glamis Lady Janet Douglas, was accused of murdering her husband
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by poisoning him and using witchcraft to destroy the King
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of Scotland, King James the Fifth. She was burnt at
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the stake in fifteen thirty seven in Edinburgh. Though few
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believed her to be guilty of the crimes for which
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she was charged, she has been seen running up the
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stairs of the clock tower, leaving a trail of ash
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in her wake. But there's another female ghost and has
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a face and mouth but no tongue. She lurks in
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the parks around in the castle. But the most notorious
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ghost of the castle is the Earl of Crawford, a
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nobleman who visited the castle in the fifteenth century. The
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story goes that one night he got very drunk, and
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he demanded that someone among the other guests must play
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cards with him. The suburb was fast approaching and gambling
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was considered an inappropriate past time for a holy day,
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so there were no volunteers. In response to this, the
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Earl declared that he would play the devil himself. Then
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it was not long after this declaration that a mysterious
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headed man arrived at the castle, dressed completely in black,
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and offered to play the Earl at cards. One of
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the servants peeked through the keyhole to watch the Earl
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and the stranger, only to be blinded in one eye
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by a dazzlingly bright light. When morning came, the Earl
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had vanished. Visitors to the castle of reported hearing the
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roll of dice. The clinging of glasses and voices swearing loudly.
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When the famous novelist saw Water Scott stayed there for
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the night. He wrote, as I heard door after doors shut,
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after my conductor had retired, I began to consider myself
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as too far from the living and somewhat too near
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to the dead. At this castle. There's also the legend
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of the unknown prisoner who was held in a hidden chamber.
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According to notes and queries, in this secret hidden chamber
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was a monster who was the rightful heir to the
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substantial property, but he was kept locked away because of
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his appearance. He was deformed and completely horrifying to look at,
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and described as a hairy toad, a creature too frightful
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to behold, with a huge round body in tiny arms
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and tiny legs. His room was bricked up after his death,
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it was said. The alternative version to this story is
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that in every generation of this family, a vampire child
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is born, and the vampire children are all booked up
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in that room. Newspapers of January eighteen ninety eight reported
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a mysterious figure with a ghastly appearance of a headless
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woman who was haunting and isolated crossroads outside of Buckingham, England.
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This unpleasant apparition was witnessed first by a reputable landowner
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in the area and his companion, who had the unfortunate
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experience of encountering the phantom while out in their horse
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and trap, said the newspapers. The landowner later reported the
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night was advanced and dark. His horse began to tremble
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like a leaf. In front of them, they saw a
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black figure standing near a post at the crossroads. The
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figure was blocking their path, and the landowner called out
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to the figure, but there was no reply and it
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did not move. As they came closer, they noticed that
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the figure appeared to be a woman, and his horse
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refused to go any further. What are you doing there?
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Move along, the landowner said to the figure. Again. The
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landowner received no reply. The horse, however, now went into
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a panic and began to back up until the trap
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landed in a ditch, forcing the landowner and his companion
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to jump out and seize its reins before it bolted.
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It was during this that the black apparition vanished. However,
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after the two men climbed back into the carriage in
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tending to leave the area in haste, the black headless
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figure of the woman appeared once more, standing completely motionless
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in the exact same position as before. The landowner, his
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nerve now completely gone, asked the black, motionless figure to
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answer him in the name of God. It was at
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these words that the spectral figure began to slowly move,
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drifting away until it appeared to float through a thick,
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deep hedge beside where it had stood. The landowner and
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his companion were quick to leave the country lane as
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fast as the horse would travel. They were not the
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only ones, though, to encounter this jet black, headless specter,
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and as words spread, few became willing to use that
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route in the dark anymore. In nineteen o four, reports
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came from the Welsh village of Tondu in bridget County,
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but they had acquired a sinister inhabitant. The reports reached
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as far as Australia in the newspapers at the time
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as they regaled the readership with their exciting details. A
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ghostly reign of terror in Glamorganshire, exclaimed the headline of
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the South Wales Echo. For some time there had been
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talk of the disused colliery being haunted. Then, on an
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early September morning, workmen saw a tall specter shrouded in
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white in the neighborhood of fell in Futch. The ghost
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glided towards them. Sockets where its eyes should have been
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were fixed straight ahead, and all twelve sturdy Welsh miners
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took to their heels and fled. When they finally dared
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to look back the ghost, it disappeared. It was reportedly
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an extremely combative ghost that put twelve strong men to
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flight and wrestled with another. A servant girl reported seeing
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the fighting ghost stalking the ruins of the abandoned colliery,
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uttering dismal groans and waving its arms about. The West
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Gippsland Gazette reported on the return of the ghost of Tondu,
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saying it has reasserted itself in the most aggressive manner.
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A respectable resident of the district was proceeding at midnight
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along a lonely narrow road adjoining the deserted buildings of
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the abandoned colliery when he was attacked by the unnatural monster.
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The gentleman is muscular, but the sight, which suddenly met
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his gaze at the far end of a bridge made
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him turn hot and cold. An exceptionally tall cadaverous figure
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was standing there, a silent, motionless sentinel. The head, as
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the frightened observer describes it, a death's head, covered with
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wrinkled parchment. The eyes were hollow sockets. Suddenly the thing
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advanced towards the trembling man, its arms long outstretched. It
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clasped him in a vice, and then began an uncanny
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tussle in the darkness. The resident felt himself held as
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though in the folds of a python. He tried to flee,
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but could not escape from the power of this supernatural assailant.
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Then it was gone. The women and children of Tondu
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were kept indoors after darkness fell, and bands of brave men,
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who armed themselves with pitchforks and bludgeons of many types,
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took to patrolling the dark country roads by night to
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attempt to slay the violent ghost. Willow Ward appear that
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at some point after this no sleighing actually took place,
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but somehow the fighting ghost of Tondu vanished. Perhaps it
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is simply relocated. On January the sixth, nineteen oh eight,
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the front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle declared
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that a terrified group in a car was stopped by
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police for driving at great speed through the Golden Gate Park.
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After being apprehended by police on horses, the newspaper rights
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asking the driver why he'd been driving so fast, police
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was shocked to discover that the group inside of the car,
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Arthur Pigeon and the rest, comprising a group of females,
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looked terribly white, as if they'd seen a ghost, which
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indeed they then explained that they had park ghost holds
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up automobile party. Police are asked to run down spook
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who terrorized motorists. Women shriek in fright, confident that spectral
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visitor tried to block their progress. Like the newspaper, the
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terrified group told the officer that they'd seen a thing
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in front of their car which was extending its arms
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as though to stop them, and it was clad in
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a luminous white robe. Mister Pigeon told the officer it
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was a tall, thin figure, barefoot and had long fair
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hair that seemed to shine. I did not notice the face,
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said mister Pigeon, I was too frightened. The officer listened
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to the account rather bemused, and suggested that the groups
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show him where this figure was At this suggestion. The
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females in the party shrieked and refused to budge. Only
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Arthur Pigeon was capable of walking with the police officer
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back to the spot where he claimed he'd seen the specter.
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It was no longer there. There was no sign of it.
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The San Francisco Chronicle wrote that the police officer gave
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his report of the incident Captain Gleeson when he returned
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to the park station later that night. Captain Gleeson then
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gave orders that any ghost answering this description is to
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be arrested on site. In eighteen thirty seven, in Victorian
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London and also spreading to other parts of the country,
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was a creature that was most known for his seemingly
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supernatural ability to leap over high walls and make boundless,
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endless jumps off for the greatest distance, scaling walls effortlessly,
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impossibly and vanishing without ever being caught. The Mayor of
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London and Sir Cowan, at a private meeting, read a
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letter from a very concerned lady resident of London. She
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told the Mayor that she had heard of a wager
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being laid in which this trickster was frightening people She
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said that there was a wager between some high society
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lads who had come up with this creature in order
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to terrify the residence, but no man could have been
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doing the things that this specter was doing. At one
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residence in London, a servant came to answer a ring
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at the doorbell and found this dreadful figure standing on
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the doorstep. Consequently, the girl immediately swooned, and the letter
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writer says she had never recovered her senses after this.
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The creature was described as a leaping figure with eyes
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like red hot coals and glittering razor sharp hooks for hands.
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One young lady called Polyadams was a barmaid in a
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pub in central London. After her shift one night, she
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was walking home when she was brutally at act in
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Blackheath Park. Then, another lady, Mary Stevens, a servant who
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worked at a wealthy home in London, was confronted by
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the same creature on Barnes' Common. She also said that
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after her attacker had finished with her, he bounded away
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with seemingly impossible jumps. The third victim was Jane Orsop,
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when she too went to answer her front door bell
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as she opened the door. Suddenly in the dark, this
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hideous monster was standing on the doorstep, shrouded in a long,
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dark cloak and stood half in the shadows. Glowing red
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eyes bore into hers as the figure lunged at her
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and she screamed. Her scream alerted her sister and father
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in the house, who came running from different rooms. By
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this point, the hideous figure with horns and claws, ripped
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at her neck and dress as she screamed in terror. She,
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her sister, and her father all confirmed that the greatest, scilly,
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deformed monster then fled into the night, leaping over roofs.
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His hands were icy cold, she said, but his eyes
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were at balls of fire. His face was hideous. He
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vomited flames. When the police came and saw the damage
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to her face, they offered a reward to capture this
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unstoppable assailant, and groups of vigilantes soon began roaming the
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parks and London streets in search of the offender. The
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Duke of Wellington and his aristocratic friends formed their own posse,
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searching on horseback for the fiend and chasing possible suspects.
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Yet these suspects all turned out to be mere mortals
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and wholly innocent. Indeed, the monster was never apprehended. As
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the weeks and months passed, attacks began to be reported
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on a weekly basis. Yet now the violent assaults had
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spread across the country. In southern England, they began to
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suffer a space of nighttime attacks. The attack I left
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tracks in the snow across fields and over rooftops, whiched
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that no mortal man could have traveled successfully without loss
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of life. People began to call the tracks he left
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behind the footprints of the devil. Things became so serious
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and the army were called in. Yet he managed to
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outsmart the army too. He taunted them by appearing suddenly
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in their foxholes where they didn't to sneak up on him.
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After appearing without warning beside them in the foxhole, he
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would just vanish again, fleeing in the blink of an
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eye into the distance, too fast for any soldier to catch.
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Any shots fired at him were useless. He was too
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fast to be hit Before he fled, though he would
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slap one of the soldiers swiftly across the face with
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a hand that was as cold as ice. An order
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shot barracks an hour from London, one of the largest
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army bases in the country a century received several ice
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cord slaps to the face. On night duty, soldiers shot
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at the fleeting figure, but had no effect. Attacks continued unabated.
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Another report came from from the County New Hamptonshire, which
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described the attack as the very image of the greel
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himself with horns and eyes of flame. Meanwhile, in London,
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ladies still found themselves confronted by the cloaked with its
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razor sharp hooks for hands, until gradually reports grew less
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and less. Perhaps the monster relocated or did he multiply.
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In eighteen seventy seven, four decades after his first appearance,
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Police Illustrates magazine reported on a strange incident again at
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Ordershot Barracks, calling the story the ghosts of Order Shot.
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It writes, for some time past, the sentries on two
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outlying posts have been frightened to death by the appearance
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at night of two spectral figures. The figures, glowing with
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phosphorus and otherwise alarming, are in the habit of suddenly
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manifesting themselves, making tremendous springs of ten or twelve steps
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at a time. Upsetting the wretched sentries before he's even
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been able to collect himself sufficiently to oppose earthly off
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to the ghostly visitations, the latter doing no bodily injury,
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contenting themselves with upsetting the poor man, after which they
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mysteriously disappear. So great has been the panic that it
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has been found necessary to post double centuries. In Buenos Aires, Argentina,
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there's a building called the Tower of the Ghosts, and
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it's named as such after the curious and disturbing tale
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of the death of a beautiful artist there at the
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hand vengeful gnomes. The Ghost Tower is the top section
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of a stunning Catalan modernist building located on the cross
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section of Wensor'slow Villa Fane in Benito Perez Galdos and
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al Morante Brown in the La Bocca neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
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Was built by Maria Luisa vent Arnauld, a wealthy ranch owner. However,
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this wealthy aunt oonah stayed for just one year and
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left the majestic property mysteriously in and without any explanation.
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The building was then converted into individual rental apartments, and
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among the new tenants was a very beautiful woman called Clementina.
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She was a quiet woman who kept herself to herself
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and worked away in her apartment as an artist. Her
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apartment was situated up in the Attelia Tower. She was
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spent all day in the tower painting. She only left
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the apartment to attend the Faculty of Arts, where she
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was studying painting. Her artwork was getting noticed, and one
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day a journalist visited her to interview her. The journalist, Elena,
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spent time talking to her and looking at her paintings
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and taking photos of them. Then Eleanor left satisfied she
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had captured the artist and her work really well, and
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feeling really excited to write up her article. But after
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she had the photographs developed and she sat looking at them,
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she was stunned to see something completely inexplicable in one
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of the photos. It appeared that in this particular photograph
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of one of Clementina's paintings, small mysterious beings who were
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definitely not in the painting. When she'd taken the photographs,
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she thought her eyes had to be deceiving her, and
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yet she could not deny that they really did appear
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to be three very strange little creatures in the photo.
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They looked like goblins or gnomes. Elena was so intrigued that,
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without wasting any time, she went back to Clementina's house
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to show a what she found in the painting. Clementina
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was surprised to see her again, but she was even
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more surprised when she saw the three creatures too, but
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she immediately refused to talk to the journalist about it.
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In fact, she appeared very disturbed, and she invited the
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journalists to leave her house immediately. As she showed Eleanor out,
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she said very quietly to her, did not have to
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see them. Elenor left very confused by the artist's behavior
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and still disturbed by the strange creatures. In the days
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and nights that followed, several of the neighbors at the
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tower thought they could hear screams coming from the direction
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of her Itelia apartment, but they brushed to offer her
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imagination or maybe it was a television. Then one night,
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the normally quiet and calm building was awoken to the
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sound of blood curdling screams. They were coming from the
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Itelia Tower, where Clementina lived. When the residents rushed up
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to investigate, they found her apartment empty, but outside on
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the sidewalk. Her body lay bloodied and dead. It appeared
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that Clementina had committed suicide, throwing herself out of the
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tower to certain death. She must have died instantly well.
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Her tragic death was written about in the city newspapers,
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and the journalist Eleanor, who had interviewed her just a
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few days before, was so shocked when she read it.
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Clementina had given no indication of being depressed about anything
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that could have caused her to throw herself to her
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death from the tower. In fact, her close circle of
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friends would later say that she'd confided in them about
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how excited she was. The painting she was soon to
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finish was her best work. She said. It had taken
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her years to paint, but she knew this was a
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turning point in her career. This would be her most
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famous painting when she finished it. Of course, as for
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the journalist Elena, she could not forget the strange attitude
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of the artist. When she'd returned to show her the
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photograph with the creatures in it, Clementina had refused to
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talk about it. Elenor was unable to stop thinking about
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this and the subsequent tragedy, so she went to the
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apartments to interview some of the people there and asking
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Clementina's neighbors about Clementina and whether they'd ever seen anything
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that could explain what had happened that night. But all
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she came away with was the discovery that the wealthy
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former owner of the building had left in what seemed
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to have been a great hurry, and had given her
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explanation for abandoning the beautiful and expensive building that she
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had built. So Eleanor became determined to visit the former
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owner and try and find out more. Eventually, she located
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Maria Luisa Albert Arnaud, and she went to see her her.
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Maria invited her in warmly and began to talk to
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her and in a herd the most fantastic and mysterious
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account imaginable. Miss Arnold began by asking the journalist if
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she believed in goblins, to which Eleanor replied no. Then
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missus Arnold began to narrate an ancient legend of Catalonia,
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which says that in the forests of the Pyrenees lived
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the follets or little goblins that always sleep in the mushrooms.
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Missus Arnold said that while living there, in her home
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in the towers with the Nomes, that they collaborated with
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her servants and were helpful every day, but that one
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day one of the nomes tried to make a pass
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at her maid, and one of the male servants, standing
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close beside the maid, took hold of the gnome and
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threw it against the wall to remove it from the
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maid's company. Understandably, the gnome was infuriated, and from that
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day forth all hell broke loose in the household. The
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Gnomes were now at war with Missus Arnold. Furniture would
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be heard across rooms, and legs of chairs were severed.
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Knives flew wildly through the air, embedding wherever they landed,
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and of course, seriously jeopardizing the lives of the servants
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and the mistress. Missus Arnold. She confided in the journalist
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that she and her servants had felt they had no
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choice but to leave her dream towers because they would
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end up dead at the hands of these small, malevolent creatures. However,
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that was all she would say. She refused to go
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into any more details, but she looked terrified when she
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talked about it. She made the journalists swear that she
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would not read the word of her tale for fear
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that she would be forced into a lunatic sylum and
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her assets would be seized. The beautiful artist to Clementina,
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for some reason, appears to have somehow upset the Gnomes.
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English aristocrat Lord Thomas Lyttleton was well known on the
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London social circuit in the seventeen seventies for his wild,
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debauched ways. Indeed, he was more commonly referred to as
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the wicked Lord Lyttleton. He'd been educated at the elite
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private boarding school called Eton, and then on to Oxford University.
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He was known as a clever, talented and very charming man,
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but also a notorious and scandalous rake who lived life
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to its fullest, excelling in extravagance. He also had a
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passion for settling things by jules. He was elected as
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an MP and sat in Parliament until he was unseated
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on the charge of bribery, but then after his father died,
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he became entitled to sit in Parliament once again, this
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time taking his hereditary seat in the House of Lords.
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Lord Lyttleton was the life and soul of any social
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gathering and famed for his entertaining character as well as
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this often scandalous one, so he was frequently talked about.
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In seventeen seventy two, he married at Fea Peach, the
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wealthy widow of the Governor of Calcutta, who had a
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fortune of over twenty thousand, which in this stay's terms
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would be approximately one point two million pounds. However, he
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soon lost interest in his new wife, and many believed
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it only married her for her money, and after three
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months he returned to the social circuit of London for
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the gambling and the women. By early the following year
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he deloped to Paris on a wager of one hundred
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guineas with the barmaid of Bolton's Inn at Hockerell. This
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was then followed swiftly by newspaper reports of another escapade
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when he got into a brawl over an actress in
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Vauxhall pleasure Gardens. He was a Georgian hell raiser who
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excelled at gambling, fornication and drinking, and he declared of himself,
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my character is divided between an ardent desire of applause
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and a more than equal love of pleasure. I will
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freely own that my life has been marked with an
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extravagance of dissipation. One of his friends even him, I
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think there is a mixture of insanity about him that
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drives him to petition. But it wasn't this exuberant and
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debauched behavior that garnered most attention during the last week
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of his life. Indeed, it was a very strange tale
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that he himself told others. Lord Lyttleton told several people
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in his close circle of friends that's something very unnerving
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but occurred on the night of November twenty fourth, seventeen
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seventy nine. Although at the time he did shrug the
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incident off. He was thirty three years of age, and
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it happened, he said, when he was in his London
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home in Hill Street, Berkeley Square. He said he was
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woken in the dead of night by what sounded like
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a bird flapping its wings on the curtains that enclosed
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his large four poster bed. He opened his eyes and
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saw the shape of a bird, which then transformed into
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a gaunt old lady, dressed head to toe in white
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and standing very close to his bed. She was withered,
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a haggard and looked very ancient. She glared at him
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and pointed a finger at him. Accusingly before saying hear me, now,
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Lord Littleton, for I have come to tell you that
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you will be dead within three days. Prepare to die.
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Then she vanished. Littleton was shaken to the core and
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quickly called for his manservant to come. The apparition had
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been so real that he knew this was not a dream.
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But the man servant the next morning couldn't help but
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tell friends of his of the strange incident in the night,
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and they told others, and soon the talk of the
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town was about the apparition and her deathly warning. Then
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Littleton himself went to his uncle, Lord Wetcoat, to tell
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him what had happened. However, not one to let anything
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stop him from enjoying his wild ways, he managed to
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shake it from his mind, and although he shared his
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experience with many of his close circle, he continued in
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his exuberant lifestyle. On the third day, the day of
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his predicted death, he was taking a group to a
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house he owned in Epsom, just outside of London. With him.
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In the group were three sisters and several other friends.
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He joked with them that he was feeling very positive
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he would have builk the ghost he believed he would
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evaded and remain victoriously alive. That day, he and his
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cousin passed a graveyard, at which he remarked to his cousin,
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you and I, who are gentlemen, so live to a
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good old age. As the evening came, he was holding
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a dinner party, where he appeared very cheerful and in
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apparent great health. At a quarter past eleven that night,
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he climbed into bed after requesting that his manservant bring
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him a teaspoon so that he could eat some rhubarb.
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When his manservant returned, Lord Lyttleton was lying on the
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floor writhing in distress as though having a fit, and
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before the clock struck midnight he was dead well. Strangely,
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a descendant of Lord A George Littleton, also had a
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terrifying encounter in the very same square, Berkeley Square in
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London a century later, in eighteen seventy two. This time
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the address where it happened was fifty Berkeley Square. Lord
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George Lyttleton stayed the night in the house as a wager.
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He set up a bell in the attic where he
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was to spend the night to prove to others that
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he could withstand any supernatural onslaught from whatever it was
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that lived there. The house had a terrible reputation of
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people being found dead there at the hands, it was
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said of the demon of Berkeley Square. He didn't believe
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the rumors or the talk of the dead bodies, but
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he did take a shotgun with him just for good measure.
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He later reported that during the night an apparition appeared
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in the form of a swirling mass of mist, and
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he did indeed shoot it. In the daylight or the
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next morning, he found the attic to be completely He
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did report that, in his opinion, the upper floor of
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the house was supernaturally fatal to body and mind, but
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he didn't explain any more than that. Well. Eight years later,
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in eighteen forty, another aristocrat, Sir Robert Warboys, was drinking
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in a tavern with a group of friends when he
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was told of the reputation of the house. He dismissed
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the stories as ludicrous, and his friends in turn challenged
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him to stay the night there. Warboys eagerly took them
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up on their bet, thinking it would be great fun
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and he would be proved right and win the bet.
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His friends insisted on some conditions that he must take
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his gun to the house with him and keep it
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in the bedroom where he was to stay alone, and
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the caretaker of the property advised him that he must
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ring the bell in the bedroom no matter how late
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it was, should you require any assistance during the night. Well,
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he settled into his room, and his friends remained in
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the drawing room room on the ground floor with the caretaker,
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all sitting together in a group for protection, and Sir
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Robert left alone up in the bedroom. All was quiet
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until at about a quarter to one in the morning,
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when the bell from his bedroom suddenly sounded and the
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men all ran quickly up to the bedroom, hearing a
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gunshot as they ran up the stairs. Quickly pushing open
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the bedroom door, they found Sir Robert on the floor,
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his pistol still smoking in his hand, the room empty.
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Sir Robert, however, was dead. His face was contorted in
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a death mask grimace of terror. He had, they declared,
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died from fright. A few years after this, two sailors
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from the naval base of Portsmouth were in town on
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leave and happened to walk by the house and noticed
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a toilette sign hanging outside. Or They decided to save
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on paying for a hotel, they'd break in and they'd
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have three digs for the night. When they got inside,
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they found all the rooms empty save for just one
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bedroom on the top floor that had a bed in it,
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and well, they had a night of drinking, so they
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were quick to get into the bed and try to
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get some sleep. One of the sailors, however, Edward Blundon,
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felt oddly nervous and too unsettled to go to sleep
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for some reason. He found himself laying restless and awake
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on the bed as his companion, Robert Martin, snored soundly.
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Then suddenly Edward heard the sound of footsteps coming toward
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the closed bedroom door, and very nervous, he quickly woke
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his friend up. Something large, dark and shapeless was entering
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the room. Then it flew at Edward, attacking him, while
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Robert managed to flee in terror from the room. He
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ran down the flights of stairs and out into the street,
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where luckily for him, he spotted a policeman on patrol,
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and he ran to him and told him his friend
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needed help urgently, that she was being attacked. So the
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policeman ran back into the house with him, and they
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climbed the stairs as fast as they could, but they
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were too late. Edward was gone from the bedroom, and
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after a search of the house, they found his body
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on the stairs of the basement, his neck broken and
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his dead face fixed in an expression of horror.
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One evening in eighteen eighty five, Sir Geordrey Sitwell was
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celebrating his twenty fifth birthday by holding a party at
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his ancestral residence, Renishore Hall. Not long after the ladies
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of the party had retired to their beds for the night,
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one female guest came back out of her bedroom to
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tell Sitwell that she could not sleep in that room
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he had given her. When he inquired why that was,
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she explained that she had felt something cold kissing her
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in bed. She was the only person staying in that room.
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Sir Sitwell found this rather amusing. However, when his friend
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mister Turnbull heard about this, he had reason to pause
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because mister Turnbull explained that a few years earlier, another
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female guest who had slept in the same bedroom, had
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also asked to move rooms after fleeing her bedroom in
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distress and telling all who would listen to her that
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she'd been lying in bed asleep when she'd been woken
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by something ice cold kissing her on the lips. Still,
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Sitwell was not impressed. He had once been in the
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newspapers for having debunked as seance as fake, and so
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he was a hardened skeptic. He felt that ghosts were
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hallucinations or delirium, especially if her lady reported seeing one.
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Some years later, when renovations were being carried out on
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his ancestral home, workers discovered an empty coffin under the
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floorboards of the room both women had tried to sleep in.
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Who the coffin had been for and why it was
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now empty and hidden under the floorboards has never been solved.
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Glamys Castle was built in the fourteenth century and it's
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where the mother of Queen Elizabeth grew up. Is located
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beside the village of Glamys in Anger's, Scotland and set
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in the Lowland valley of Strathmore, with a land of
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more than forty acres. It has a reputation of being
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extremely haunted by a number of apparitions. The lady of
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glamis Lady Janet Douglas, was accused of murdering her husband
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by poisoning him and using witchcraft to destroy the King
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of Scotland, King James the Fifth. She was burnt at
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the stake in fifteen thirty seven in Edinburgh. Though few
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believed her to be guilty of the crimes for which
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she was charged, she has been seen running up the
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stairs of the clock tower, leaving a trail of ash
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in her wake. But there's another female ghost and has
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a face and mouth but no tongue. She lurks in
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the parks around in the castle. But the most notorious
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ghost of the castle is the Earl of Crawford, a
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nobleman who visited the castle in the fifteenth century. The
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story goes that one night he got very drunk, and
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he demanded that someone among the other guests must play
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cards with him. The suburb was fast approaching and gambling
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was considered an inappropriate past time for a holy day,
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so there were no volunteers. In response to this, the
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Earl declared that he would play the devil himself. Then
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it was not long after this declaration that a mysterious
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headed man arrived at the castle, dressed completely in black,
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and offered to play the Earl at cards. One of
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the servants peeked through the keyhole to watch the Earl
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and the stranger, only to be blinded in one eye
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by a dazzlingly bright light. When morning came, the Earl
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had vanished. Visitors to the castle of reported hearing the
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roll of dice. The clinging of glasses and voices swearing loudly.
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When the famous novelist saw Water Scott stayed there for
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the night. He wrote, as I heard door after doors shut,
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after my conductor had retired, I began to consider myself
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as too far from the living and somewhat too near
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to the dead. At this castle. There's also the legend
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of the unknown prisoner who was held in a hidden chamber.
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According to notes and queries, in this secret hidden chamber
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was a monster who was the rightful heir to the
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substantial property, but he was kept locked away because of
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his appearance. He was deformed and completely horrifying to look at,
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and described as a hairy toad, a creature too frightful
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to behold, with a huge round body in tiny arms
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and tiny legs. His room was bricked up after his death,
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it was said. The alternative version to this story is
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that in every generation of this family, a vampire child
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is born, and the vampire children are all booked up
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in that room. Newspapers of January eighteen ninety eight reported
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a mysterious figure with a ghastly appearance of a headless
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woman who was haunting and isolated crossroads outside of Buckingham, England.
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This unpleasant apparition was witnessed first by a reputable landowner
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in the area and his companion, who had the unfortunate
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experience of encountering the phantom while out in their horse
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and trap, said the newspapers. The landowner later reported the
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night was advanced and dark. His horse began to tremble
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like a leaf. In front of them, they saw a
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black figure standing near a post at the crossroads. The
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figure was blocking their path, and the landowner called out
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to the figure, but there was no reply and it
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did not move. As they came closer, they noticed that
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the figure appeared to be a woman, and his horse
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refused to go any further. What are you doing there?
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Move along, the landowner said to the figure. Again. The
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landowner received no reply. The horse, however, now went into
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a panic and began to back up until the trap
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landed in a ditch, forcing the landowner and his companion
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to jump out and seize its reins before it bolted.
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It was during this that the black apparition vanished. However,
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after the two men climbed back into the carriage in
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tending to leave the area in haste, the black headless
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figure of the woman appeared once more, standing completely motionless
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in the exact same position as before. The landowner, his
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nerve now completely gone, asked the black, motionless figure to
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answer him in the name of God. It was at
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these words that the spectral figure began to slowly move,
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drifting away until it appeared to float through a thick,
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deep hedge beside where it had stood. The landowner and
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his companion were quick to leave the country lane as
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fast as the horse would travel. They were not the
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only ones, though, to encounter this jet black, headless specter,
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and as words spread, few became willing to use that
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route in the dark anymore. In nineteen o four, reports
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came from the Welsh village of Tondu in bridget County,
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but they had acquired a sinister inhabitant. The reports reached
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as far as Australia in the newspapers at the time
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as they regaled the readership with their exciting details. A
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ghostly reign of terror in Glamorganshire, exclaimed the headline of
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the South Wales Echo. For some time there had been
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talk of the disused colliery being haunted. Then, on an
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early September morning, workmen saw a tall specter shrouded in
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white in the neighborhood of fell in Futch. The ghost
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glided towards them. Sockets where its eyes should have been
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were fixed straight ahead, and all twelve sturdy Welsh miners
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took to their heels and fled. When they finally dared
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to look back the ghost, it disappeared. It was reportedly
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an extremely combative ghost that put twelve strong men to
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flight and wrestled with another. A servant girl reported seeing
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the fighting ghost stalking the ruins of the abandoned colliery,
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uttering dismal groans and waving its arms about. The West
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Gippsland Gazette reported on the return of the ghost of Tondu,
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saying it has reasserted itself in the most aggressive manner.
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A respectable resident of the district was proceeding at midnight
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along a lonely narrow road adjoining the deserted buildings of
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the abandoned colliery when he was attacked by the unnatural monster.
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The gentleman is muscular, but the sight, which suddenly met
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his gaze at the far end of a bridge made
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him turn hot and cold. An exceptionally tall cadaverous figure
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was standing there, a silent, motionless sentinel. The head, as
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the frightened observer describes it, a death's head, covered with
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wrinkled parchment. The eyes were hollow sockets. Suddenly the thing
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advanced towards the trembling man, its arms long outstretched. It
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clasped him in a vice, and then began an uncanny
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tussle in the darkness. The resident felt himself held as
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though in the folds of a python. He tried to flee,
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but could not escape from the power of this supernatural assailant.
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Then it was gone. The women and children of Tondu
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were kept indoors after darkness fell, and bands of brave men,
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who armed themselves with pitchforks and bludgeons of many types,
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took to patrolling the dark country roads by night to
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attempt to slay the violent ghost. Willow Ward appear that
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at some point after this no sleighing actually took place,
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but somehow the fighting ghost of Tondu vanished. Perhaps it
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is simply relocated. On January the sixth, nineteen oh eight,
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the front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle declared
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that a terrified group in a car was stopped by
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police for driving at great speed through the Golden Gate Park.
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After being apprehended by police on horses, the newspaper rights
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asking the driver why he'd been driving so fast, police
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was shocked to discover that the group inside of the car,
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Arthur Pigeon and the rest, comprising a group of females,
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looked terribly white, as if they'd seen a ghost, which
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indeed they then explained that they had park ghost holds
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up automobile party. Police are asked to run down spook
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who terrorized motorists. Women shriek in fright, confident that spectral
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visitor tried to block their progress. Like the newspaper, the
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terrified group told the officer that they'd seen a thing
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in front of their car which was extending its arms
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as though to stop them, and it was clad in
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a luminous white robe. Mister Pigeon told the officer it
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was a tall, thin figure, barefoot and had long fair
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hair that seemed to shine. I did not notice the face,
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said mister Pigeon, I was too frightened. The officer listened
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to the account rather bemused, and suggested that the groups
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show him where this figure was At this suggestion. The
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females in the party shrieked and refused to budge. Only
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Arthur Pigeon was capable of walking with the police officer
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back to the spot where he claimed he'd seen the specter.
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It was no longer there. There was no sign of it.
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The San Francisco Chronicle wrote that the police officer gave
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his report of the incident Captain Gleeson when he returned
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to the park station later that night. Captain Gleeson then
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gave orders that any ghost answering this description is to
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be arrested on site. In eighteen thirty seven, in Victorian
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London and also spreading to other parts of the country,
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was a creature that was most known for his seemingly
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supernatural ability to leap over high walls and make boundless,
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endless jumps off for the greatest distance, scaling walls effortlessly,
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impossibly and vanishing without ever being caught. The Mayor of
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London and Sir Cowan, at a private meeting, read a
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letter from a very concerned lady resident of London. She
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told the Mayor that she had heard of a wager
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being laid in which this trickster was frightening people She
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said that there was a wager between some high society
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lads who had come up with this creature in order
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to terrify the residence, but no man could have been
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doing the things that this specter was doing. At one
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residence in London, a servant came to answer a ring
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at the doorbell and found this dreadful figure standing on
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the doorstep. Consequently, the girl immediately swooned, and the letter
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writer says she had never recovered her senses after this.
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The creature was described as a leaping figure with eyes
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like red hot coals and glittering razor sharp hooks for hands.
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One young lady called Polyadams was a barmaid in a
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pub in central London. After her shift one night, she
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was walking home when she was brutally at act in
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Blackheath Park. Then, another lady, Mary Stevens, a servant who
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worked at a wealthy home in London, was confronted by
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the same creature on Barnes' Common. She also said that
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after her attacker had finished with her, he bounded away
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with seemingly impossible jumps. The third victim was Jane Orsop,
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when she too went to answer her front door bell
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as she opened the door. Suddenly in the dark, this
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hideous monster was standing on the doorstep, shrouded in a long,
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dark cloak and stood half in the shadows. Glowing red
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eyes bore into hers as the figure lunged at her
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and she screamed. Her scream alerted her sister and father
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in the house, who came running from different rooms. By
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this point, the hideous figure with horns and claws, ripped
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at her neck and dress as she screamed in terror. She,
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her sister, and her father all confirmed that the greatest, scilly,
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deformed monster then fled into the night, leaping over roofs.
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His hands were icy cold, she said, but his eyes
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were at balls of fire. His face was hideous. He
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vomited flames. When the police came and saw the damage
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to her face, they offered a reward to capture this
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unstoppable assailant, and groups of vigilantes soon began roaming the
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parks and London streets in search of the offender. The
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Duke of Wellington and his aristocratic friends formed their own posse,
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searching on horseback for the fiend and chasing possible suspects.
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Yet these suspects all turned out to be mere mortals
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and wholly innocent. Indeed, the monster was never apprehended. As
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the weeks and months passed, attacks began to be reported
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on a weekly basis. Yet now the violent assaults had
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spread across the country. In southern England, they began to
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suffer a space of nighttime attacks. The attack I left
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tracks in the snow across fields and over rooftops, whiched
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that no mortal man could have traveled successfully without loss
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of life. People began to call the tracks he left
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behind the footprints of the devil. Things became so serious
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and the army were called in. Yet he managed to
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outsmart the army too. He taunted them by appearing suddenly
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in their foxholes where they didn't to sneak up on him.
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After appearing without warning beside them in the foxhole, he
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would just vanish again, fleeing in the blink of an
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eye into the distance, too fast for any soldier to catch.
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Any shots fired at him were useless. He was too
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fast to be hit Before he fled, though he would
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slap one of the soldiers swiftly across the face with
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a hand that was as cold as ice. An order
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shot barracks an hour from London, one of the largest
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army bases in the country a century received several ice
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cord slaps to the face. On night duty, soldiers shot
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at the fleeting figure, but had no effect. Attacks continued unabated.
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Another report came from from the County New Hamptonshire, which
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described the attack as the very image of the greel
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himself with horns and eyes of flame. Meanwhile, in London,
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ladies still found themselves confronted by the cloaked with its
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razor sharp hooks for hands, until gradually reports grew less
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and less. Perhaps the monster relocated or did he multiply.
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In eighteen seventy seven, four decades after his first appearance,
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Police Illustrates magazine reported on a strange incident again at
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Ordershot Barracks, calling the story the ghosts of Order Shot.
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It writes, for some time past, the sentries on two
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outlying posts have been frightened to death by the appearance
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at night of two spectral figures. The figures, glowing with
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phosphorus and otherwise alarming, are in the habit of suddenly
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manifesting themselves, making tremendous springs of ten or twelve steps
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at a time. Upsetting the wretched sentries before he's even
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been able to collect himself sufficiently to oppose earthly off
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to the ghostly visitations, the latter doing no bodily injury,
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contenting themselves with upsetting the poor man, after which they
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mysteriously disappear. So great has been the panic that it
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has been found necessary to post double centuries. In Buenos Aires, Argentina,
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there's a building called the Tower of the Ghosts, and
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it's named as such after the curious and disturbing tale
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of the death of a beautiful artist there at the
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hand vengeful gnomes. The Ghost Tower is the top section
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of a stunning Catalan modernist building located on the cross
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section of Wensor'slow Villa Fane in Benito Perez Galdos and
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al Morante Brown in the La Bocca neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
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Was built by Maria Luisa vent Arnauld, a wealthy ranch owner. However,
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this wealthy aunt oonah stayed for just one year and
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left the majestic property mysteriously in and without any explanation.
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The building was then converted into individual rental apartments, and
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among the new tenants was a very beautiful woman called Clementina.
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She was a quiet woman who kept herself to herself
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and worked away in her apartment as an artist. Her
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apartment was situated up in the Attelia Tower. She was
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spent all day in the tower painting. She only left
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the apartment to attend the Faculty of Arts, where she
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was studying painting. Her artwork was getting noticed, and one
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day a journalist visited her to interview her. The journalist, Elena,
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spent time talking to her and looking at her paintings
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and taking photos of them. Then Eleanor left satisfied she
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had captured the artist and her work really well, and
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feeling really excited to write up her article. But after
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she had the photographs developed and she sat looking at them,
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she was stunned to see something completely inexplicable in one
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of the photos. It appeared that in this particular photograph
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of one of Clementina's paintings, small mysterious beings who were
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definitely not in the painting. When she'd taken the photographs,
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she thought her eyes had to be deceiving her, and
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yet she could not deny that they really did appear
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to be three very strange little creatures in the photo.
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They looked like goblins or gnomes. Elena was so intrigued that,
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without wasting any time, she went back to Clementina's house
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to show a what she found in the painting. Clementina
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was surprised to see her again, but she was even
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more surprised when she saw the three creatures too, but
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she immediately refused to talk to the journalist about it.
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In fact, she appeared very disturbed, and she invited the
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journalists to leave her house immediately. As she showed Eleanor out,
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she said very quietly to her, did not have to
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see them. Elenor left very confused by the artist's behavior
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and still disturbed by the strange creatures. In the days
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and nights that followed, several of the neighbors at the
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tower thought they could hear screams coming from the direction
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of her Itelia apartment, but they brushed to offer her
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imagination or maybe it was a television. Then one night,
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the normally quiet and calm building was awoken to the
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sound of blood curdling screams. They were coming from the
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Itelia Tower, where Clementina lived. When the residents rushed up
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to investigate, they found her apartment empty, but outside on
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the sidewalk. Her body lay bloodied and dead. It appeared
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that Clementina had committed suicide, throwing herself out of the
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tower to certain death. She must have died instantly well.
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Her tragic death was written about in the city newspapers,
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and the journalist Eleanor, who had interviewed her just a
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few days before, was so shocked when she read it.
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Clementina had given no indication of being depressed about anything
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that could have caused her to throw herself to her
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death from the tower. In fact, her close circle of
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friends would later say that she'd confided in them about
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how excited she was. The painting she was soon to
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finish was her best work. She said. It had taken
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her years to paint, but she knew this was a
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turning point in her career. This would be her most
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famous painting when she finished it. Of course, as for
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the journalist Elena, she could not forget the strange attitude
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of the artist. When she'd returned to show her the
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photograph with the creatures in it, Clementina had refused to
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talk about it. Elenor was unable to stop thinking about
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this and the subsequent tragedy, so she went to the
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apartments to interview some of the people there and asking
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Clementina's neighbors about Clementina and whether they'd ever seen anything
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that could explain what had happened that night. But all
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she came away with was the discovery that the wealthy
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former owner of the building had left in what seemed
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to have been a great hurry, and had given her
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explanation for abandoning the beautiful and expensive building that she
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had built. So Eleanor became determined to visit the former
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owner and try and find out more. Eventually, she located
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Maria Luisa Albert Arnaud, and she went to see her her.
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Maria invited her in warmly and began to talk to
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her and in a herd the most fantastic and mysterious
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account imaginable. Miss Arnold began by asking the journalist if
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she believed in goblins, to which Eleanor replied no. Then
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missus Arnold began to narrate an ancient legend of Catalonia,
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which says that in the forests of the Pyrenees lived
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the follets or little goblins that always sleep in the mushrooms.
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Missus Arnold said that while living there, in her home
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in the towers with the Nomes, that they collaborated with
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her servants and were helpful every day, but that one
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day one of the nomes tried to make a pass
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at her maid, and one of the male servants, standing
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close beside the maid, took hold of the gnome and
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threw it against the wall to remove it from the
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maid's company. Understandably, the gnome was infuriated, and from that
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day forth all hell broke loose in the household. The
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Gnomes were now at war with Missus Arnold. Furniture would
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be heard across rooms, and legs of chairs were severed.
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Knives flew wildly through the air, embedding wherever they landed,
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and of course, seriously jeopardizing the lives of the servants
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and the mistress. Missus Arnold. She confided in the journalist
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that she and her servants had felt they had no
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choice but to leave her dream towers because they would
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end up dead at the hands of these small, malevolent creatures. However,
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that was all she would say. She refused to go
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into any more details, but she looked terrified when she
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talked about it. She made the journalists swear that she
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would not read the word of her tale for fear
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that she would be forced into a lunatic sylum and
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her assets would be seized. The beautiful artist to Clementina,
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for some reason, appears to have somehow upset the Gnomes.
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English aristocrat Lord Thomas Lyttleton was well known on the
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London social circuit in the seventeen seventies for his wild,
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debauched ways. Indeed, he was more commonly referred to as
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the wicked Lord Lyttleton. He'd been educated at the elite
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private boarding school called Eton, and then on to Oxford University.
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He was known as a clever, talented and very charming man,
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but also a notorious and scandalous rake who lived life
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to its fullest, excelling in extravagance. He also had a
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passion for settling things by jules. He was elected as
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an MP and sat in Parliament until he was unseated
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on the charge of bribery, but then after his father died,
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he became entitled to sit in Parliament once again, this
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time taking his hereditary seat in the House of Lords.
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Lord Lyttleton was the life and soul of any social
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gathering and famed for his entertaining character as well as
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this often scandalous one, so he was frequently talked about.
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In seventeen seventy two, he married at Fea Peach, the
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wealthy widow of the Governor of Calcutta, who had a
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fortune of over twenty thousand, which in this stay's terms
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would be approximately one point two million pounds. However, he
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soon lost interest in his new wife, and many believed
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it only married her for her money, and after three
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months he returned to the social circuit of London for
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the gambling and the women. By early the following year
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he deloped to Paris on a wager of one hundred
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guineas with the barmaid of Bolton's Inn at Hockerell. This
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was then followed swiftly by newspaper reports of another escapade
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when he got into a brawl over an actress in
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Vauxhall pleasure Gardens. He was a Georgian hell raiser who
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excelled at gambling, fornication and drinking, and he declared of himself,
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my character is divided between an ardent desire of applause
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and a more than equal love of pleasure. I will
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freely own that my life has been marked with an
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extravagance of dissipation. One of his friends even him, I
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think there is a mixture of insanity about him that
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drives him to petition. But it wasn't this exuberant and
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debauched behavior that garnered most attention during the last week
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of his life. Indeed, it was a very strange tale
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that he himself told others. Lord Lyttleton told several people
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in his close circle of friends that's something very unnerving
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but occurred on the night of November twenty fourth, seventeen
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seventy nine. Although at the time he did shrug the
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incident off. He was thirty three years of age, and
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it happened, he said, when he was in his London
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home in Hill Street, Berkeley Square. He said he was
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woken in the dead of night by what sounded like
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a bird flapping its wings on the curtains that enclosed
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his large four poster bed. He opened his eyes and
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saw the shape of a bird, which then transformed into
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a gaunt old lady, dressed head to toe in white
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and standing very close to his bed. She was withered,
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a haggard and looked very ancient. She glared at him
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and pointed a finger at him. Accusingly before saying hear me, now,
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Lord Littleton, for I have come to tell you that
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you will be dead within three days. Prepare to die.
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Then she vanished. Littleton was shaken to the core and
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quickly called for his manservant to come. The apparition had
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been so real that he knew this was not a dream.
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But the man servant the next morning couldn't help but
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tell friends of his of the strange incident in the night,
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and they told others, and soon the talk of the
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town was about the apparition and her deathly warning. Then
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Littleton himself went to his uncle, Lord Wetcoat, to tell
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him what had happened. However, not one to let anything
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stop him from enjoying his wild ways, he managed to
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shake it from his mind, and although he shared his
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experience with many of his close circle, he continued in
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his exuberant lifestyle. On the third day, the day of
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his predicted death, he was taking a group to a
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house he owned in Epsom, just outside of London. With him.
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In the group were three sisters and several other friends.
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He joked with them that he was feeling very positive
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he would have builk the ghost he believed he would
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evaded and remain victoriously alive. That day, he and his
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cousin passed a graveyard, at which he remarked to his cousin,
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you and I, who are gentlemen, so live to a
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good old age. As the evening came, he was holding
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a dinner party, where he appeared very cheerful and in
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apparent great health. At a quarter past eleven that night,
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he climbed into bed after requesting that his manservant bring
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him a teaspoon so that he could eat some rhubarb.
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When his manservant returned, Lord Lyttleton was lying on the
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floor writhing in distress as though having a fit, and
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before the clock struck midnight he was dead well. Strangely,
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a descendant of Lord A George Littleton, also had a
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terrifying encounter in the very same square, Berkeley Square in
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London a century later, in eighteen seventy two. This time
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the address where it happened was fifty Berkeley Square. Lord
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George Lyttleton stayed the night in the house as a wager.
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He set up a bell in the attic where he
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was to spend the night to prove to others that
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he could withstand any supernatural onslaught from whatever it was
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that lived there. The house had a terrible reputation of
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people being found dead there at the hands, it was
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said of the demon of Berkeley Square. He didn't believe
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the rumors or the talk of the dead bodies, but
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he did take a shotgun with him just for good measure.
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He later reported that during the night an apparition appeared
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in the form of a swirling mass of mist, and
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he did indeed shoot it. In the daylight or the
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next morning, he found the attic to be completely He
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did report that, in his opinion, the upper floor of
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the house was supernaturally fatal to body and mind, but
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he didn't explain any more than that. Well. Eight years later,
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in eighteen forty, another aristocrat, Sir Robert Warboys, was drinking
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in a tavern with a group of friends when he
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was told of the reputation of the house. He dismissed
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the stories as ludicrous, and his friends in turn challenged
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him to stay the night there. Warboys eagerly took them
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up on their bet, thinking it would be great fun
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and he would be proved right and win the bet.
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His friends insisted on some conditions that he must take
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his gun to the house with him and keep it
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in the bedroom where he was to stay alone, and
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the caretaker of the property advised him that he must
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ring the bell in the bedroom no matter how late
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it was, should you require any assistance during the night. Well,
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he settled into his room, and his friends remained in
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the drawing room room on the ground floor with the caretaker,
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all sitting together in a group for protection, and Sir
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Robert left alone up in the bedroom. All was quiet
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until at about a quarter to one in the morning,
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when the bell from his bedroom suddenly sounded and the
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men all ran quickly up to the bedroom, hearing a
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gunshot as they ran up the stairs. Quickly pushing open
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the bedroom door, they found Sir Robert on the floor,
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his pistol still smoking in his hand, the room empty.
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Sir Robert, however, was dead. His face was contorted in
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a death mask grimace of terror. He had, they declared,
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died from fright. A few years after this, two sailors
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from the naval base of Portsmouth were in town on
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leave and happened to walk by the house and noticed
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a toilette sign hanging outside. Or They decided to save
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on paying for a hotel, they'd break in and they'd
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have three digs for the night. When they got inside,
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they found all the rooms empty save for just one
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bedroom on the top floor that had a bed in it,
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and well, they had a night of drinking, so they
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were quick to get into the bed and try to
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get some sleep. One of the sailors, however, Edward Blundon,
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felt oddly nervous and too unsettled to go to sleep
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for some reason. He found himself laying restless and awake
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on the bed as his companion, Robert Martin, snored soundly.
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Then suddenly Edward heard the sound of footsteps coming toward
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the closed bedroom door, and very nervous, he quickly woke
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his friend up. Something large, dark and shapeless was entering
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the room. Then it flew at Edward, attacking him, while
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Robert managed to flee in terror from the room. He
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ran down the flights of stairs and out into the street,
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where luckily for him, he spotted a policeman on patrol,
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and he ran to him and told him his friend
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needed help urgently, that she was being attacked. So the
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policeman ran back into the house with him, and they
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climbed the stairs as fast as they could, but they
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were too late. Edward was gone from the bedroom, and
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after a search of the house, they found his body
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on the stairs of the basement, his neck broken and
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his dead face fixed in an expression of horror.
