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ghosts have become so annoyed by the recent rise of scepticism about their existence, that they’re threatening to go on strike. ‘If you’re going to have that attitude, we’re not going to bother haunting you anymore’
And why when you’re in the shower does the shower curtain always billow in towards you?‡
Guglielmo Marconi, the pioneering inventor of radio, believed sounds never died, but just got softer, and spent the last years of his life dreaming up a device to track down Christ’s Sermon on the Mount.
Doyle was a big player in the world of spiritualism. When Agatha Christie went missing, the chief constable of Surrey approached him for help. Rather than employing the deductive skills that saw him solving numerous real-life crimes, Doyle instead decided to procure one of Christie’s gloves, which he presented to Horace Leaf and asked him to help in the hunt. Leaf practised psychometry, the art of eliciting information from physical objects. Leaf, who was given the glove, without a name, said that Agatha was quite safe and that they’d all hear from her on Wednesday. This surprisingly turned
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The album was launched in the New York Botanical Garden, where critics were invited to listen to both discs of the LP while eating vegetarian food.
