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+--------------+-----------------+-------------------------------+ Recorded |Heard in Room.| Witness. | Description of Sound. | under | | | | Date. | | | | ---------+--------------+-----------------+-------------------------------+ March 8 | No. II. | Mr. C---- | Noises in No. I. (empty room) | | | | | " 10 | No. VIII. |{ Miss Moore | Animal moving in the room | | |{ Miss Freer | Heavy fall | | | | | " 13 | No. VIII. |{ Miss Moore }| Loud bangs | | |{ Miss Freer }| | | | | | | |{ Robinson, }| | | Attics |{ and Mrs. }| Loud bangs | | |{ Robinson }| | | | | | | No. IV. | Miss Langton | Loud bangs | | | | | " 15 | No. VIII. |{ Miss Moore }| Vibrating bang | | |{ Miss Freer }| | | | | | | No. IV. | Miss Langton | Vibrating bang | | | | | | Wing | Colonel Taylor | Vibrating bang | | | | | [Miss Freer was absent for four nights, and no Journal was kept.] | | | | | | |{ Miss Moore |{ Metallic sound in room "like | " 20 | No. I. |{ Miss Freer | the 'giving' of a large | | |{ Miss Langton | tin box" | | | | | " 22 | No. IV. | Mr. MacP---- | Heavy footsteps overhead | | | | | | No. III. | Miss "Duff" |{ Resounding crash at door | | | |{ Resounding crash in room | | | | | | | |{ Monotonous reading (also | " 23 | Drawing-room | Miss "Duff" |{ mentioned as occurring in | | | |{ No. III.) | | | | | " 24 | No. V. | Miss Freer |{ Crash of something falling | | | |{ under dome | | | | | | No. VIII. | Colonel C---- | Loud thump on door of room | | | | | | | |{ Explosive noises | | No. I. | Mr. W---- |{ Crash of something falling | | | |{ under dome | | | | | | |{ Two housemaids}| | | Attics |{ and }| Loud knockings | | |{ kitchen-maid }| | | | | | | Butler's room|} Mrs. Robinson |{ Footsteps and knocking on | | on ground |} |{ door of No. III. | | floor |} | | | | | | | No. III. | Miss "Duff" |{ Shuffling foot steps | | | |{ outside room | | | | | | No. II. |{ Miss "Duff" }| Fall against door of No. I. | | |{ Miss Langton }| | | | | | " 25 | No. II. | Miss Langton |{ Loud thump on door between | | | |{ I. and II. | | | | | | |{ Carter }| | | |{ (housemaid) }| | " 27 | Attics |{ Under- }| Monotonous reading | | |{ housemaid }| | | |{ Kitchen-maid }| | | | | | " 29 | Library |{ Miss Freer }|{ Footsteps in locked-up | | |{ Miss Langton }|{ room overhead | | | | | " 30 | Library |{ Miss Freer }|{ Footsteps in locked-up | | |{ Miss Langton }|{ room overhead | | | | | | |{ Mr. and Mrs. }| | | Corridor |{ M---- }| Rappings in No. II. (empty). | | |{ Miss Langton }| (See Mr. M----'s account) | | |{ Miss Freer }| | ---------+--------------+-----------------+-------------------------------+
+--------------+-----------------+-------------------------------+ Recorded |Heard in Room.| Witness. | Description of Sound. | under | | | | Date. | | | | ---------+--------------+-----------------+-------------------------------+ March 31 | No. VIII. | Miss Langton |{ Shuffling footsteps in the | | | |{ room | | | |{ Knock near the wardrobe | | | | | | | |{ Metallic clangs in the room | | | |{ like "tuning a kettle-drum";| | |{ Mrs. M---- |{ later, "terrific noise," | | No. I. |{ Mr. M---- |{ "like treble rap on a | | | |{ hollow panel,"--like "the | | | |{ lid of a heavy coal-scuttle | | | |{ let fall" | | | | | | | |{ Voices in library | | Drawing-room | Mrs. M---- |{ Detonating noise (like a | | | |{ distant cannon) | | | | | April 1 | No. VIII. |{ Mr. M---- }| Voices and footsteps in | | |{ Mrs. M---- }| room overhead (empty) | | | | | | Drawing-room | Mrs. M---- | Voices and footsteps | | | | overhead | | | | | | |{ Mrs. M---- }| | | In the garden|{ Miss Freer }| Detonating noise | | |{ Miss Langton }| | | | | | | |{ Mrs. M---- }| Limping footsteps overhead | | Drawing-room |{ Miss Freer }| Voices of a man and woman | | |{ Miss Langton }| | | | | | " 2 | Library |{ Miss Freer }| Heavy blow on table | | |{ Miss Langton }| | | | | | | | Mrs. M---- | Heavy blow on table (heard | | | Miss Freer | in dining-room) | | | Miss Langton | | | | | | | |{ Miss Freer }| Footsteps overhead in | | Dining-room |{ Miss Langton }| empty room | | |{ Robinson }| | | |{ (butler) }| | | | | | " 3 | Library | Miss Langton |{ Violent hammering on door | | | |{ in daylight | | | | | | |{ Miss Freer }| Footsteps overhead in | | |{ Miss Langton }| empty room | | Dining-room |{ Mr. T---- }| | | |{ Robinson }| | | |{ (butler) }| | | | | | " 4 | No. V. |{ Miss Freer }| Crash under dome | | |{ Miss Langton }| | | | | | " 5 | No. I. | Mr. T---- | Monotonous reading | | | | | " 6 | No. I. | Mr. T---- |{ Thuds on floor above, and | | | |{ on door of room | | | |{ Voices in conversation | | | | | " 7 | No. V. | Miss Freer | Crash under dome | | | | | | No. I. | Mr. T---- |{ Crash under dome | | | |{ Voices in conversation | | | |{ Raps at foot of door | | | | | " 8 | Various parts| Household |{ Crashes and bangs and | | of the house| generally |{ footsteps heard during | | | |{ the day | | | | | | Smoking-room |{ Miss Freer }| Shuffling footsteps in the | | |{ Miss Langton }| room | | |{ Mr. T---- }| Voices outside door | | |{ Dog }| | ---------+--------------+-----------------+-------------------------------+
+--------------+-----------------+-------------------------------+ Recorded |Heard in Room.| Witness. | Description of Sound. | under | | | | Date. | | | | ---------+--------------+-----------------+-------------------------------+ April 8 | No. IV. | Miss Freer | Crash under dome | | | | | | No. VIII. | Miss Langton | Shuffling footsteps | | | | | | No. I. | Mr. T---- | Voices | | | | | | | |{ Thuds on lowest panels of | | | |{ door | | No. IV. | Miss Freer |{ Footsteps of many persons | | | | | [No Journal kept between April 8 and April 29. During this period | Professor Lodge's notes testify to "knocks on the wall, a sawing noise, | a droning and a wailing, ... some whistling, and apparent attempts at a | whisper, all up in the attic.] | | | | | | | |{ Monotonous voice from | May 3 | No. I. | Mme. Boisseaux |{ No. III. | | | |{ Voices in argument | | | | | | No. V. | Mrs. "F." | Knocks at door | | | | | " 4 | No. V. | Mme. Boisseaux | Knocks at door | | | | | | |{ Mme. | | | | Boisseaux }| | | |{ Mrs. "F." }|{ Detonating noise in empty | " 5 | Drawing-room |{ Mrs. M---- }|{ room overhead (No. I.) in | | |{ Miss Freer }|{ daylight | | |{ Rev. MacL---- }| | | | | | | Billiard-room| Gardener, }| | | | butler, cook} | Crash in the room | | | and others } | | | | | | " 6 | No. V. | Mme. Boisseaux |{ "Room resounded with | | | |{ knocks" | | | | | | Library |{ Miss Freer }| Bangs on table | | |{ Miss Moore }| | | | | | " 13 | No. I. | Mr. "Etienne" | [?] Detonating noise | ---------+--------------+-----------------+-------------------------------+
NOTES
[Compare Plan of House.]
1. The rooms spoken of in the text as "the library," and the "upstairs," or "wing" smoking-room, are those marked in the Plan as the "morning-room," and the bedroom to the extreme east in the wing.
2. Most of the maid-servants slept in rooms Y and Z, over 1 and 2, until the alarm of March 25, when they moved to the rooms on the other side the house (X and W), thus leaving those over Nos. 1 and 2 empty.
3. Robinson and Mrs. Robinson (butler and cook) occupied room W till March 13, when both moved into the butler's room off the hall, which during the first month had been occupied by Mac the maid, who became ill and returned south.
4. Opinions regarding the noises, and experiments as to their origin, will be found on the under-mentioned pages of the Journal.
_Opinions_, pp. 92, 111, 113, 120, 124, 128, 133, 143, 144, 147, 153, 154, 159, 162, 166, 168, 173, 179, 187, 198, 201, 207, 215, 219, 234, 242.
_Experiments_, pp. 109, 129, 140, 160, 175, 180, 218, 220.
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