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.

The Haunting of the Wesleys

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

The Haunting of the Wesleys

SAMUEL WESLEY is known to posterity as the father of the famous John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, and of the hardly less famous…

The Haunting of the Wesleys: Samuel

This visitation from the supermundane came as a climax to a series of worldly annoyances that would have upset the equanimity of a very Job…

The Haunting of the Wesleys: Hoole

With this the Rev. Samuel seems to have come round to the family's way of thinking; for in the morning he sent a messenger to the nearby…

The Haunting of the Wesleys: Jeffrey

Robert was also the witness of an even more peculiar performance by the elusive ghost. "Being grinding corn in the garrets, and happening…

The Haunting of the Wesleys: Hetty

And, more than this, she seems to have enjoyed a far greater share of Jeffrey's attentions than did any other member of the family. "My…

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