Turnip Ghosts

Originally posted on streetsofsalem:

There is a great quote from the prolific and eminently quotable British writer G. K Chesterton about ghosts–or reallybelief– in general which references turnip ghosts in particular: I am quite ready to believe that a number of ghosts were merely turnip ghosts, elaborately prepared to deceive the village idiot. This is from a column in theIllustrated London News in 1936: the assumption is that his audience would immediately understand the phrase “turnip gh...