Throughout history there have been tragedies that later lead to ghost sightings and hauntings. A
few examples are, Gettysburg, The Battle of Little Big Horn, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Probably the first ghost story that was ever investigated objectively concerned a strange sort of
ghost. The case was called The Drummer of Tedworth. This case attracted the attention of Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680).
Glanvill was an intelligent, educated, and important man. He was chaplin to King Charles II of England. Joseph
Glanvill might be classed as the father of modern paranormal research.
For those interested in paranormal research the episode of the Bealing Bells has been regarded as
sort of a classic poltergeist case. This was investigated by a Major Moor. Major Moor made a detailed record of
the temperature and barometric pressure during the period of the bell ringing, but he made no attempt to keep track of the
people in the house. There is more than a suspicion that the whole episode of the Bealings Bells was a joke,
not that anyone was playing a joke on Major Moor, but that he was playing a joke on everyone else.
Have you ever had the feeling that you had stepped back into the past? There is a story about
an incident which fits this description. The story took place on August 10, 1901. Two English ladies, Anne Moberly
and Eleanor Jourdain, who were touring France, visited the great palace at Versailles outside of Paris.
Both of these women were school teachers and had no particular interest in french history or paranormal happenings.
The story goes that as these ladies toured the grounds and buildings of the area, they felt an increasing
feeling of sadness, seeing people that seemed "out of the times". The ladies went on to write a book about this experience
called An Adventure. They even felt they had found the date of which these people were from, 1792.
Unfortunately it has never been conclusively said that they did experience this. It was found that the buildings they
had seen, were in fact still on the grounds when they visited. It is thought that the people they saw were visitors
just like them. It is important to note that the clothing from 1901 was not really that much different than the clothing
of 1792. So for now we do not know wether these ladies had an overactive imagination, or truly stepped back into
time.
Glastonbury Abbey is the site of one of the oldest Christian churches in the British Isles.
Long before it was a Christian church Glastonbury served as a pagan place of worship. Naturally there are lots of ghost
stories attached to the Abbey, including one which says that the ghost of King Arthur rides into the courtyard of the Abbey
every Christmas Eve. This perhaps is well known as an old folks tale, but there is a story that deserves some further
attention.
There were two men named, Frederick Bond and J. Bartlett, who were sent to the Abbey to do some archeological
digs. Both of these men were not your ordinary archaeologists and both firmly believed in ghosts/spirits. While
at the Abbey they decided to experiment with automatic writing. The first message that came through was on the night
of November 7, 1907. It was supposed to have contained a floor plan of the Abbey, and was signed Gulielmus Monachus,
William the Monk. There were other messages received from other monks, who indicated they had lived at the
Abbey in about the Thirteenth century. It is said that the first messages were received in Latin, but soon switched
to English, though it was an old and strange English. The notes supposedly told the archeologist where to dig and what
they would find. The two men unearthed a chapel, based on the information they received. Others weren't
as sure and said that the chapel could have been found by careful observation of exisiting historical records.
We may never know if this was a hoax or not, but it is known that these two men believed strongly in automatic writing.
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