Help with tracking down details of haunting.
I remember hearing this account of a haunting in the mid 90s. It was possibly featured on Strange but True but I’ve had trouble tracking down the details subsequently. From what I can remember a family moves in to a Tudor period cottage and soon after start experiencing bumps in the night.
I remember hearing this account of a haunting in the mid 90s. It was possibly featured on Strange but True but I’ve had trouble tracking down the details subsequently. From what I can remember a family moves in to a Tudor period cottage and soon after start experiencing bumps in the night. The focus of the haunting is the family computer on which strange messages begin to appear in 16th century style English. I think there was even typed communication between the man of the house and spirit with messages appearing on the screen even when the computer was switched off. Additional messages would appear scrawled onto walls. An expert was brought in and concluded that the language used in these messages was used accurately and could have only been written by an individual with knowledge of the language of the period. Despite this I have the feeling the scenario was exposed as a hoax some years later.
If anyone has any information regarding this it would be much appreciated.
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Is this it http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vertical-Plane-Ken-Webster/dp/0586204768/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279010911&sr=8-1
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Spot on Ian, it’s the Dodleston Messages case fron the ’80s.
And despite allegations to the contrary the messages, as well crafted as they were, were written in "phony Tudor English" which failed to take in experts in Tudor literature and common language.
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It is Mysteryshopper who found it, not me lol
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Thanks! This has been bugging me for ages. Now I’ve had a bit of a read up on the case I’m not sure what to make of it all to be honest.Very interesting though.
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Bummer.