Cambridge College Ghosts - Softcover

Yeates, Geoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0711706751 ISBN 13: 9780711706750

Publisher: Jarrold Pub, 1994

Founded at the end of the thirteenth century, Cambridge University has had 700 years to accumulate accounts of weird hauntings, strange and scandalous goings-on and ghoulish eccentrics. in some cases it has been possible to pinpoint the precise location of the apparition or event. A few of the ghosts of Cambridge colleges are less supernatural and more in the character of skeletons in the cupboard. Indeed, Clare College is said to have kept the original 'skeleton in the cupboard' for over 100 years. A disastrous election of a master led to a suicide and haunted the college of Peterhouse until well into the nineteenth century. Then there is the grotesque story of The Everlasting Club abd Jesus College's 'Ghost Room; behind the oaken door on 'Cow Lane'. Cambridge College Ghosts also summarises the long and sometimes turbulent histories of the colleges and dicusses the latest explanations for the paranormal. Some of the great ghost-hunters of the last century are associated with Newcastle College. They were among the first to attempt to put the paranormal on a scientific basis, but investigation into the supernatural often raises more questions than it answers. Is it Oliver Cromwell's head that haunts Sussex College?... but why has the evil-smelling apparition no ears? Why does Corpus Christi College have a ghost that is cut off at the knee? Is the Grey Lady of Giron Miss E.H. Taylor? Why did the predictions on imminent death by the ghost of former Souldern Rectory twenty miles north of 'the other place' have repercussions in St. John's College? Is Christopher Round's life-story of secret love, rivalry, misapprehension and murder behind the apparition that walks slowly across the lawns of the Fellows' Garden in Christ's College? ... And who dares uncover the deadly secret why the history of an anonymous college remains unwritten? --- from book's back cover

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