Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters

Eleven famous hauntings examined by a man who believed the question deserved evidence — Loudun, Tedworth, the Wesleys' parsonage, the Cock Lane ghost — and then the investigators who went after them.

A Medieval Ghost Hunter

7 pages in this part of Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters.

A Medieval Ghost Hunter

HE name of Dr. John Dee is scarcely known to-day, yet Dr. Dee has some exceedingly well-defined claims to remembrance. He was one of the…

A Medieval Ghost Hunter: Kelley

Kelley, as shrewd and unscrupulous a man as any in the annals of imposture, readily consented, but on pretty hard terms. He was to be taken…

A Medieval Ghost Hunter: Lasky

Lasky turned out to be an exceedingly excitable and impressionable man, and his curiosity was so aroused by the occult discourse of his…

A Medieval Ghost Hunter: England

Dr. Dee, in the meantime, a sadder if not a really wiser man, had found his way back to England, where he essayed the difficult task of…

A Medieval Ghost Hunter: Disraeli

Let me depict it in Disraeli's little known words: "Dee, sitting in his library," says Disraeli, "received the royal commissioners.

A Medieval Ghost Hunter: Mortlake

He complained that his house at Mortlake was too public for his studies, and incommodious for receiving the numerous foreign literati who…

A Medieval Ghost Hunter: Elizabeth

Their report was terse, direct, and wholly favorable, inspiring the queen to declare that Dee should have the mastership of St. Cross, and…

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