Someone Who Was There

From his bath, Henry Brougham saw his friend G--- sitting calmly on a chair. He wrote the whole thing down at once, dated 19 December.

Knocks, thunder-like bangs and flying bedclothes centred on Esther Cox, 18, and her family's house. Walter Hubbell's account dates the start to late August 1878.

With the lights burning, Hahn, Kern and an inspector named Knetsch watched two napkins float up to the ceiling and knives and forks fly across the room.

Macpherson, staying in a shepherds' summer hut, said the ghost of Sergeant Davies, killed at Braemar in 1749, pressed him to bury its bones and named two Highlanders as its killers. The two men were tried for the murder.

Fearing something had caught fire, a witness in bed looked out and saw a golden-haired boy in white standing beside the bed.

In 1835 Madame Mayer spent a night in a cell of the Weinsberg prison and, about midnight, saw a yellow light drift in, felt a cool draught and smelled decay.