Penthouse North,
29 Washington Square West,
New York,
NY 10011-9180.
Parapsychological Research Group
3101 Washington Street,
San Francisco,
California CA 94511.
Center for Scientific Anomalies Research
PO Box 1002,
Ann Arbour,
Michigan MI 48103.
Department of Parapsychology
PO Box 102,
Medical Centre,
University of Virginia,
Charlottesville VA 22908.
California Society for Psychical Study
PO Box 844,
Berkeley,
California 94701.
Psychical Research Foundation
Duke Station,
Durham,
North Carolina 27708.
There are numerous other groups, societies and organizations around the world that study the paranormal, the supernatural and ghosts; for current details the best source of information is the Internet.
Acknowledgments
This book is the result of almost half a century of research into incidents of true hauntings: collecting personal stories, newspaper reports and extracting accounts from books about the supernatural and the paranormal. As a result I owe a great deal of thanks to many individuals, publishers and organizations. I can only include those who have been most helpful here and trust that any I have overlooked or inadvertently left out will forgive me.
First, I would like to acknowledge the following people who have provided me with their stories of hauntings either in oral or written form: Robert Aickman, Marc Alexander, Fred Archer, Beryl Bainbridge, Maurice Barbanell, Dennis Bardens, Michael Bentine, Sir John Betjeman, James Braddock, Anthony Burgess, Eddie Burks, Elizabeth Byrd, Hereward Carrington, Dame Barbara Cartland, James Wentworth Day, Alan Dent, Shaw Desmond, Eric Dingwall, Mia Doran, Gerald Fairlie, Thomas Fletcher, Benny Fisz, Nandor Fodor, Miriam Allen de Ford, Joan Forman, Frederick Forsyth, Ken Gardner, Eileen Garrett, Robert Graves, Andrew Green, Arthur Guirdham, John Harries, Professor John Hasted, Hans Holzer, Gordon Honeycombe, Robert Thurston Hopkins, Brian Inglis, John A Keel, Frederick Knaggs, Arthur Koestler, G W Lambert, Shane Leslie, T C Lethbridge, Coral Lorenzen, Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, Andrew MacKenzie, Matthew Manning, Daphne du Maurier, Nicholas Monsarrat, William F. Nolan, Elliott O’Donnell, Canon John Pearce-Higgins, Dom Robert Petitpierre, Bishop James Pike, Chapman Pincher, Professor H H Price, James Reynolds, Mary Carter Roberts, D Scott Rogo, Professor Archie Roy, Charles Sampson, Jeremy Sandford, Carl Sargeant, Dr Michael Shallis, Susy Smith, John Gay Stevens, Doris Stokes, Hannen Swaffer, Vic Tandy, Paul Tabori, G N Tyrell, Ena Twigg, Peter Underwood, Debbie Watling, Lyall Watson, Dr Caroline Watt, Dennis Wheatley, Henry Williamson and Colin Wilson.
Secondly, my gratitude is extended to the following newspapers and magazines for allowing me to quote from their pages, in particular: Autocar, Baltimore Sun, Cape Times, Chicago Daily News, Country Life, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Telegraph, Dallas Morning Herald, East Anglian Daily Times, East Anglian Magazine, Evening Standard, Forum, Guardian, Halifax Courier, Harper’s Magazine, Illustrated London News, Kent Messenger, Lancashire Echo, Lancashire Evening Post, Listener, Liverpool Echo, Los Angeles Examiner, Mail on Sunday, Memphis Commercial Appeal, News of the World, New York Post, New York Daily News, New York Times, New Yorker, New Zealand Herald, Northern Echo, Northwest Evening Mail, Observer, Oxford Mail, People, Perth Weekend Mail, Psychic News, Radio Times, Scientific American, Scotsman, South Wales Echo, The Spectator, Sun, Sunday Express, Sunday Mirror, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Times, Village Voice, Warwickshire Advertiser, West Essex Gazette, Western Daily Press.
Finally, a word of thanks to the following publishers for permission to quote passages from their books which are cited in the text: W H Allen, Arrow Books, Batsford & Co., Dell Books, J M Dent & Sons, Duckworth, Faber, Fontana Books, Robert Hale, Charles Letts & Co, Rider & Co., Paperback Library, Manor Books, New American Library, Routledge & Keegan Paul and Souvenir Press Ltd.
ENDNOTES
1. In 1940 a ghostly biplane described as “looking like a Tiger Moth” was seen by a number of airmen on the Montrose airfield narrowly avoiding a Hawker Hurricane that was making a night landing. Two years later, a Flight-Lieutenant who was said to have been very unpopular with his men crashed and died within moments taking off from the base. In 1946, a guard on duty at Montrose saw a figure emerging from one of the hangars and ran to challenge him. The man was horrified to be confronted by an airman with “a dead-white face, wearing goggles, helmet and flying suit”, who immediately vanished. Later the guard learned that the hangar had been used as a morgue to hold the body of the despised Flight-Lieutenant until he could be removed for burial.
2. and frenquent contributor to FATE before his death in December, 1958.
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