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First Published June 21 1969 HAUNTED houses are on the increase, said Canon John Pearce-Higgins, Canon and Vice-Provost of Southwark Cathedral, and vice-chairman of the Church' Fellowship for Psychical Study, at the Arts Centre in Swindon last night. He told members of the Philosophical Society, and their chairman Mr Tom Anderson, of his belief in the after-life, his experiences with ghosts and his methods of clearing them from haunted houses. Ghosts he said were people who did not know they were dead or that they had lost their physical body. He said a requiem mass for them and communicated with their spirits through medium who went into a trance state. When they were convinced they were dead they accepted guidance into the spiritworld. Canon Pearce-Higgins is internationally known for his work in clearing haunted houses. 'It is very rewarding work' he said. The lost spirits needed compassionate help to set their souls on the spiritual path. Evidence of haunting in houses was usually on the same lines - knocking and footsteps were heard, heavy objects such as chairs or tables were moved or pictures were taken down from the walls. Sometimes a mischievous ghost might be destructive and break things or tear curtains. Cases like this were well authenticated he said. They had been witnessed by such analytical people as police and firemen. In places where there was physical evidence of the ghost as with poltergeists, there were usually young people in the house, teenagers, with an overflowing of energy of which the ghost made use for moving objects. The canon found that the work re-inforced his own faith because it was clear evidence of life after death. His views were endorsed by a member of the Philosophical Society, Mr H W Jones, of Wroughton, secretary of the Church's Fellowship for Spiritual Studies. He had experience in clearing a haunted house, he said in Penhill. Many hauntings today were in council houses, since they were built on the sites of earlier homes. Mrs M Johansen Deane, the Swindon poetess spoke of the ghosts she had seen, including a monk, and a young man on a bicycle. The opposing view was put by Mr Norman Lydiard, the former borough public relations officer. His explanation of physical phenomena was that they were related to transmissions between minds in existing living bodies. Freud taught that the mind did not lose a single impression from the moment we are born, but we did not consciously remember one-millionth of what has happened. Subconscious memories and telepathy between minds could give rise to vivid impressions. Back to 1969 index |
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