“She came running into my room,” Mrs. Lilly said. “She cried, ‘There is a man in my room! There is!’ She’s refused to sleep alone ever since.” When I asked for a description of the stranger, Linda said she thought he had been wearing a “checkered shirt.” Bedroom phantoms in checkered shirts are old hat to investigators of psychic phenomena. I have come upon this again and again. So often that I have written long articles about it. In some cases these ghosts-in-plaid are accompanied by the odor of hydrogen sulfide and sudden chills or sudden blasts of heat, while other episodes are probably
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