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HISTORIC GHOSTS

AND

GHOST HUNTERS




HISTORIC GHOSTS

AND

GHOST HUNTERS

BY

H. ADDINGTON BRUCE

_Author of "The Riddle of Personality"_

NEW YORK

MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY

1908




_Copyright_, 1908, _by_

MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY

NEW YORK

***

_Published, September, 1908_


_The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A._




To

THE MEMORY OF MY FRIEND

JOHN J. HENRY




CONTENTS


                                                  PAGE

        PREFACE                                     ix

     I. THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN                         1

    II. THE DRUMMER OF TEDWORTH                     17

   III. THE HAUNTING OF THE WESLEYS                 36

    IV. THE VISIONS OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG           56

     V. THE COCK LANE GHOST                         81

    VI. THE GHOST SEEN BY LORD BROUGHAM            102

   VII. THE SEERESS OF PREVORST                    120

  VIII. THE MYSTERIOUS MR. HOME                    143

    IX. THE WATSEKA WONDER                         171

     X. A MEDIEVAL GHOST HUNTER                    198

    XI. GHOST HUNTERS OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY      216




PREFACE


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