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    The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist From "The New Decameron", Volume III.
    The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist From "The New Decameron", Volume III.
    The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist From "The New Decameron", Volume III.
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    The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist From "The New Decameron", Volume III.

    By J. D. (John Davys) Beresford

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist From "The New Decameron", Volume III. - J. D. (John Davys) Beresford

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      Title: The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist

             From The New Decameron, Volume III.

      Author: J. D. Beresford

      Release Date: August 31, 2007 [EBook #22479]

      Last Updated: February 4, 2013

      Language: English

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      THE PSYCHICAL RESEARCHER'S TALE

      THE SCEPTICAL POLTERGEIST

      From The New Decameron—Volume III.

      By J. D. Beresford

      There was once a time (he began) when I decided that I was a fraud; that I could not be a psychical researcher any longer. I determined to give it all up, to investigate no more phenomena nor attend another séance, nor read a word about psychical research for the remainder of my life. On the contrary, I planned an intensive study of the works of the later Victorians, of that blissful period in the history of Europe when we could believe in the comforting doctrine of materialism. Oh! I thought, that one had a Haeckel or a Huxley living now to console us with their beautiful faith in the mortality of the soul! The Neo-Darwinians failed to convince me; the works of H. G. Wells left me cold.

      I will tell you the events that brought me to this evil pass.

      It is not likely that anyone here will remember the Slipperton case. It attracted little attention at the time. In 1905 there was still a little sanity left in the world. A few even of the London dailies were nearly sane then, and refused to report ghost stories unless they were known to be untrue. And the Slipperton case had hardly any publicity—an inch in the Daily Mail, headed Family Evicted by Ghosts, was the only newspaper report that I saw; though there may have been others. In these days the story would be given a couple of columns

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