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After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..  

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.  

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ContentsForeword by Travis L. Whitehurst
Introduction        de occultis non judicat ecclesia                                                                            
The Bristol Rocking Horse        
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn        
The Coonian Ghost        
The Ghosts Of All Saints Church        
His Luminous Chamber        
The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg        
And More Ghost Stories        
The Thomas B. Cumpston Case        
The Chupacabra        
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle        
What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?        
Mystery Beasts Of Ireland        
The Creature Of The Dump        
The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods        
The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack        
The Black Beast Of Darmstadt        
The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square        
The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport        
The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet        
Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures        
The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video        
From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs        
Aerial Encounters Over Austria        
A Crashed UFO In 1790?        
Angel Hair        
Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”        
Strange Aliens From Space        
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals        
Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation        
Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?        
The Venezuelan HorrorA Final Word.

Ghosts -The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg

 

THE PARISH CLERK. By Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

  There is a far more traditional tale of a ghostly appearance and one that resulted in good fortune.  Try as I might, I cannot find a full account but the gist of the story was given by a Mr.William George in a letter to the Bristol Times & Mirror (1):

                            “THE LATE REV. DR.BLOMBERG.”

                   “Sir,--“Querist” asks, in Saturday’s Times and Mirror,

                   if the late Dr.Blomberg was rector of Shepton Mallet,

                   and when.  In reply I would say that the Rev. Frederick

                   William Blomberg, D.D., was instituted to the rectory of

                   Shepton Mallet in 1787, upon the presentation of his

                   friend and associate the Prince of Wales (afterwards

                   George the Fourth).  In 1790 he became a Prebendary of

                   Bristol Cathedral, and from the Dean and Chapter

                   received the living of Bradford-on-Avon in 1793.  The

                   Bristol Directory for 1805 gives his address as “Banwell,

                   Somerset”, of which parish he was vicar.  He afterwards

                   became a Canon of St.Paul’s, London, and received from

                   that Cathedral the valuable living of St. Giles’s, Cripple-

                   gate.

 

                   “Dr. Blomberg was the son of a Major Blomberg, who

                   died of a violent fever, in Martinique, during the Seven

                   Years’ War.  The major’s name has been preserved in

                   ghost-story annals for his having, after his death, ‘appeared

                   in the middle of the night,dressed in his regimentals’, to

                   Colonel Stewart and Captain Mounsey, when he asked

                   the former to take care of his “little boy”, and to see him

                   put in possession of an estate in England, the writings

                   relative to which, the ghost is reported to have said, would

                   be found in a certain ‘old chest”, in a house in York-

                   shire.’

 

                   “Of course the papers were found, and young Blomberg,

                   after a lawsuit, put in possession of his estate.  And what

                   was still more fortunate for him,the curious ghost story

                   reached the ears of Queen Charlotte, who became

                   interested in the youth and took him into the Royal

                   household, where he was ‘educated in intimate association

                   with the children of George the Third.’  So through this

                   singular story of his father’s apparition young Blomberg

                   appears to have been greatly indebted for the valuable

                   benefices he held in the Church….”

 

    Perhaps the appearance of Blomberg’s father had been of great benefit; it had guided friends to the hidden chest after all.  However, even with the friendship of the Royal household  he did not achieve the rank of bishop.  The reason for this was also explained by Mr.George in his letter:

 

                   “…had he not been been an eminent violoncello player,he

                   might, so it is recorded, have died a bishop; for upon Lord

                   Castlereagh suggesting Dr.Blomberg to George the Third

                   as one worthy of a certain vacant bishopric, his Majesty

                   exclaimed ’Tut, tut, tut; what, what, what make a biship of a fiddler! 

                   Never do, never do, never.’  So his proficiency in music proved

                   a “bar” to his promotion.” 

 

    Which, I suppose, just goes to show that your father’s ghost may well lead to a hidden chest with vital documents that earn you an estate and friends at the Royal household, but it won’t get you made bishop if you play the violin!

 

 

 

 

Ghosts -His Luminous Chamber.

  

The reference to a flickering light seen on a wall during the 1846 All Saints haunting is not unusual.  That great investigator of the ghostly, Elliott O’Donnell, even referred to a triangular shaped light at one haunted house.  BBC TV’s Nationwide programme in the 1970s broadcast images of a ball of light in an old squash court and voices, allegedly, of dead RAF men. 

    So there is nothing new.  However, a whole room fully illuminated?

    R. MacDonald Robertson, who was stationed at Trowbridge Artillery Cadet School during World War One, and off duty visited Taunton where he gleamed the account of a Mr. T. Westwood.  It was Westwood’s account of “The Luminous Chamber” that the writer produced in his 1962 article (1).  The account reads:-

            “In the year 1840 I was detained for several months in the sleepy

            old town of Taunton.  My chief associate during that time was a

            fox-hunting squire –a bluff, hearty, genial type of his order, with

            just sufficient intellectuality to temper his animal exuberance.  Many

            were our merry rides among the thorpes and hamlets of pleasant

            Somersetshire: and it was in one of these excursions, while the

            evening sky was like molten copper, and a fiery March wind coursed

            like a racehorse over the open downs, that he related the story of

            ‘His Luminous Chamber’.

 

            “Coming back from the hunt, after dark, he said he had frequently

            observed a central window, in an old hall not far from the roadside,

            illuminated.  All the other windows were dark, but from this one a wan,

            dreary light was visible;and as the owners had deserted the place, and

            he knew it had no occupant, the lighted window became a puzzle to

            him.

 

            “On one accasion, having a brother squire with him, and both carrying

            good store of port wine under their girdles, they declared they would solve

            the mystery of the Luminous Chamber then and there.  Before opening the

            great door, however, my squire averred he had made careful inspection of the

            front of the house from the lawn.  Sure enough,the central window WAS

            illuminated.  An eerie, forlorn-looking light made it stand out in contrast to

            the rest –a dismal light, that seemed to have nothing in common with the

            world, or the life that is.  The two squires visited all the other, leaving the

            luminous room till the last.  There was nothing noticeable in any of them, but

            on entering the luminous room a marked change was perceptible.

 

            “The light in it was not full, but sufficiently so beneath them to distinguish

            its various articles of furniture,which were common and scanty enough.  What

            struck them most was the uniform diffusion of the light;it was as strong under

            the table as on the table,so that not single object projected any shadow.  He

            told me, too, that he had not been many seconds in the room before a sick

            faintness stole over him, a feeling –such was his expression, I remember,--as if    

             his life ‘were being sucked out of him’.   His friend owned up afterwards to

            a similar sensation.

 

            “It had always been the same, the old porter grumbled; the family had never

            occupied the room, but there were no ghosts—‘the room had a light of its

            own’.

 

            “A less sceptical spirit might have opined that the room was FULL of

            ghosts –an  awful conclabe—viewless, inscrutable, but from whom emanated

            that deathly and deafly luminousness.

 

            “My squires must have gone the way of all squires ere this.  After life’s fitful

            fever, do they sleep well?  Or have they both been ‘sucked’ into the luminous

            medium, as a penalty for their intrusion?”

 

    This account is very interesting in that it does not fit into the usual pattern of hauntings.  In fact, can it be classed as a haunting or should it just be classed a mystery?  There is also an extremely interesting aspect of this account that tally with other phenomena -UFOs for one.

 

    The mention of “faintness” and the sensation of the life “being sucked out of him” is very much like the sensation reported by witnesses in some close-up sightings of globular UFOs.  It is believed that this is a side effect of some type of radiation.  If we take into account the fact that this strange light affected one room only, which was never occupied it seems even more likely that the room was a focal point for some type of electro-magnetic phenomena.

    The hall is not identified, more is the pity.  Today, if we knew the location, even if the hall has since been demolished, we might still find reports of “odd lights” seen over the area in question.

    We may never know.  “His Luminous Chamber” has kept its secret.