A PRAYING GHOST

Evening Star, Issue 17700, 29 June 1921, Page 1

A PRAYING GHOST

VICAR'S STI!AXGH STORY. Apparently then: is a interioua ghost in Hi. Thomas's Church, Regent street, London. Jt is said by the Rev, Ciarenco Mac. i-iio vicar, that* it lias appeared to him/ personally. Other people say that noises have been heard by them before the spirit's appearance. “These events have occurred in the past three weeks,'' said Mr May. “Uncanny knockings were heard by tho caretaker and her nephew, who was with her in the church at the time. She came and informed me, while her nephew waited outside. .mo one could have passed him without being scon, but when 1 arrived the chinah was empty. “A few days later my cm ate, tho Rev, Joint L'vitt, hoard patteringa of feet, although no .one was in tho church. “Lastly, at 8 o’clock one raerning, I distinctly saw a cassocked figure kneeling in the side chapel. 1 thought it was a priest, it rose and walked past tho altar to the saen’siy on tho other side. 1 followed, expecting to meet the worshipper in the vestry. Mo one was there. The figure had vanished. “It was quite normal in size and appearance, and had a decided limp. The last two rectors have both been lame, but there is a decided reason, which 1 would rat her not disclose, for the reappearance of fcho last. Tie matter is now in the hands of the Psychical Research Society.”

The story was lAd in i!e (mui.sc of a debate between Mr May and Canon Addericy on ‘ Spnittial.sm.' "in controverting his colleague, the canon told how a spirit linkage, conveyed through a medium, expressed the strong disapproval of the vicar who preceded him of coilain of his (the canon’s) ecclesiastical practices. “Bui,” sa : d Laron Addcrlcy, “the message wav a iirtor; ‘previous,’ for the vicar was alive at the time.'’