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Peter Underwood


Born
in Letchworth, The United Kingdom
May 16, 1923

Died
November 26, 2014

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(1923/2014): Author, broadcaster, historian of the occult; investigator of the paranormal.

Born in Letchworth in Hertfordshire, Underwood wrote prolifically on ghosts and haunted places within the United Kingdom, and was a leading expert on ‘the most haunted house in England’, Borley Rectory.

An early formative experience came at the age of nine, on the day he learnt of his father’s death; that night, he awoke to see an apparition of his father at the foot of the bed.

Around the same time, he was fascinated to learn of a ghost story associated the old house at Rosehall - where his maternal grandparents lived for a time; it contained a bedroom where guests claimed to see the figure of a headless man..

It was at this young age that Underwood's in
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“98% of reported hauntings have a natural and mundane explanation … it is the other 2% that have interested me for over 40 years.”
Peter Underwood, No Common Task: The Autobiography of a Ghost-hunter

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