Investigations.
Her cases, each with a verdict.
- The house everyone knows. The story worth checking.Before the bestseller and the films, there was a real crime. The haunting needs its own evidence.
- A recording is evidence. Of what, exactly?Enfield has tapes, photographs and witnesses. The difficult part is deciding what they actually establish.
- Who investigates the ghost hunter?At Borley, the methods of the investigator became as important as the supposed haunting.
- Did the house build the ghost story?An extraordinary building is real. The explanation attached to Sarah Winchester needs checking.
- The Roman soldiers and the missing date.A striking cellar account seems to match buried archaeology. The order of the evidence matters.
- A frightening account. A monk added later?Pontefract shows why the history of an explanation matters as much as the history of a claim.
- The real history does not need invented horror.At LaLaurie House, lurid ghost stories risk pushing the people who suffered out of view.
- When a real injustice becomes a ghost story.Pendle’s modern haunting stories borrow authority from the trials. That does not make them historical evidence.
- The phantom battle and the printing press.Two old pamphlets make an extraordinary claim. Reading them together makes it less straightforward.
- A buried street. Several different ghost stories.Edinburgh’s extraordinary close brings together plague history, an old account and a much newer child ghost.