LONDON GHOST CLUB

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21360, 13 June 1931, Page 18

LONDON GHOST CLUB

DINING WITH THE DEAD SECRETS OF FIFTY YEARS. It one were in a certain street in the West End of London on a certain evening every month he would see between 30 and 40 prominent men —doctors, _ barristers, business men —going to a fashionable restaurant to have a monthly dinner, and to gloat over eerie and fantastic stories in ghosts. No one who associates with these men in ordinary life ever knows what goes on in the prh ate dining room in this restaurant on the first Wednesday in every month. The diners leave their everyday personalities outside, and for several hours abandon themselves to a psychic orgy. They call themselves the Ghost Chib. For 50 years they have been in existence, and no one has yet revealed anything of their strange and carefully guarded proceedings. They are under an oath of secrecy not to divulge what transpires at these dinners. In the quiet of this private dining room many a tale too gruesome for publication is told, apd these are all taken down by the secretary with the solemnity of a coroner presiding over his court. The rules forbid publication of the stories. They are all stored away—many volumes of them —in a house in Kensington.