This lady was well known to my friends and to Dr. Ferrier. I
also have had the honour to make her acquaintance.
{179} Apparently on Thursday morning really.
{182} She gave, not for publication, the other real names, here
altered to pseudonyms.
{186} Phantasms, ii., 202.
{188a} Maspero, Etudes Egyptiennes, i., fascic. 2.
{188b} Examples cited in Classical Review, December, 1896, pp. 411,
413.
{188c} Proceedings, S.P.R., vol. xii., p. 45-116.
{189} See "Lord St. Vincent's Story".
{190} Anecdote received from the lady.
{191} Story at second-hand.
{192} See The Standard for summer, 1896.
{196} I have once seen this happen, and it is a curious thing to see,
when on the other side of the door there is nobody.
{198a} S.P.R., iii., 115, and from oral narrative of Mr. and Mrs.
Rokeby. In 1885, when the account was published, Mr. Rokeby had not
yet seen the lady in grey. Nothing of interest is known about the
previous tenants of the house.
{198b} Proceedings, S.P.R., vol. viii., p. 311.
{199} Letter of 31st January, 1884.
{200} Six separate signed accounts by other witnesses are given.
They add nothing more remarkable than what Miss Morton relates. No
account was published till the haunting ceased, for fear of lowering
the letting value of Bognor House.
{201} Mr. A. H. Millar's Book of Glamis, Scottish History Society.
{202} This account is abridged from Mr. Walter Leaf's translation of
Aksakoff's Predvestniki Spiritizma, St. Petersburg, 1895. Mr.
Aksakoff publishes contemporary letters, certificates from witnesses,
and Mr. Akutin's hostile report. It is based on the possibility of
imitating the raps, the difficulty of locating them, and the fact that
the flying objects were never seen to start. If Mrs. Shchapoff threw
them, they might, perhaps, have occasionally been seen to start.
S.P.R., vol. xii., p. 298. Precisely similar events occurred in
Russian military quarters in 1853. As a quantity of Government
property was burned, official inquiries were held. The reports are
published by Mr. Aksakoff. The repeated verdict was that no suspicion
attached to any subject of the Czar.
{205} The same freedom was taken, as has been said, with a lady of
the most irreproachable character, a friend of the author, in a
haunted house, of the usual sort, in Hammersmith, about 1876.
{206} Proceedings, S.P.R., vol. xii., p. 49.
{212} John Wesley, however, places Hetty as
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