Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters

Project Gutenberg's Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters, by H. Addington Bruce This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters Author: H. Addington Bruce Release Date: May 6, 2009 [EBook #28699] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORIC GHOSTS AND GHOST HUNTERS *** Produced by Irma Spehar, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) HISTORIC GHOSTS AND GHOST HUNTERS H I S T O R I C G H O S T S AND G H O S T H U N T E R S 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 [Pg vii] 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.