"GHOST" RAPS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9203, 30 April 1920, Page 5

"GHOST" RAPS.

Strange rappings at night on a bedroom wall have caused many of the people of Brickendon, a Hertfordshire village, to believe in the presence of a ghost. Sceptics said that someone was working "a fraud." The rappings continued during many nights, and so much interest and discussion were excited that the Psychical Research Society sent an investigator. He was accompanied by two local Coupcillors, and a huge crowd assembled outside the house, which is on a poultry farm. is'o rappings, however, were heard, and the disappointed crowd became restive. • Presently, to satisfy them, the investigator called—"There is no ghost, there is no fraud; the position is caused by a girl's bad state of health, which niigtit happen to anyone."

It appeared that a girl in the house had been taught the Morse code by her brother, when he came home from the Army. She had caused the rappings every night on .her bedroom wall. To a Press representative the investigator said the case was parallel to a number of other cases well known to doctors, and hundreds of which were never heard of. The girl might not have been conscious of the mappings. He declined to say how she made them. ■