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Title: The Alleged Haunting of B---- House

Author: Various

Editor: A. Goodrich-Freer and John, Marquess of Bute

Release Date: August 17, 2005 [EBook #16538]

Language: English

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THE ALLEGED HAUNTING

OF B---- HOUSE

[Illustration: ATTICS]

[Illustration: SECOND FLOOR]

[Illustration: GROUND FLOOR L. Lift. A. Iron gate in Area.]

[Illustration: BASEMENT]

THE ALLEGED HAUNTING

OF

B---- HOUSE

INCLUDING

A JOURNAL KEPT DURING THE TENANCY OF
COLONEL LEMESURIER TAYLOR

EDITED BY
A. GOODRICH-FREER (MISS X)
AND
JOHN, MARQUESS OF BUTE, K.T.

LONDON
GEORGE REDWAY
1899

"I visited B---- representing that Society [S.P.R.], ... and
decided that there was no such evidence as could justify us in
giving the results of the inquiry a place in our
_Proceedings_."--_The Times_, June 10, 1897.

FREDERIC W.H. MYERS,
_Hon. Sec. of the Society for Psychical Research_.

_Compare pages 189 et seq._

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THE ALLEGED HAUNTING OF B---- HOUSE

It was in 1892 that Lord Bute first heard of the matter. It was not,
as stated by _The Times_ correspondent in that journal for June 8,
1897, in or from London, but at Falkland, in Fifeshire, and in the
following manner:--

There is no public chapel at Falkland, and the private chapel in the
house is attended by a variety of priests, who usually come only from
Saturday to Monday. Lord Bute's diary for the second week in August
1892 contains the following entries:--

"_Saturday, August 6th._--Father H----, S.J., came.

"_Sunday, August 7th._--In afternoon with Father H---- and John [Lord
Dumfries] to Palace, and then with him to the Gruoch's Den. He gives
us a long account of the psy