Ghosts & Gallows (34 page)

Dutch super-psychic Gerard Croiset (1909-1980), known as the ‘Wizard of Utrecht’. The clairvoyant received many calls both day and night from the parents of missing children. (Henri Croiset)

Pat McAdam, who went missing in February 1967. Her body has never been recovered. (Author’s collection)

Anne Noblett – her bizarre ‘Deep Freeze Murder’ remains unsolved. (Paul Heslop)

A modern view of the derelict pig farm at Marshalls Heath Lane, Wheathampstead, said to have been haunted by the ghost of Anne Noblett during the 1970s. (Paul Adams)

Face of Evil – the front page of the
Daily Express
for 30 April 1981, showing Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe returning from the Old Bailey after being charged with thirteen murders. (Author’s collection)

Article from the
Daily Mirror
for 21 November 1980, showing the Yorkshire Ripper predictions of psychic Nella Jones. (Author’s collection)

Clairvoyant Suzanne Padfield, photographed in the Paralab in the early 1970s. Through remote viewing she was able to reveal information about the Moscow ice rink murder. (Author’s collection)

Number 16 Wardle Brook Avenue, Hattersley, photographed shortly before its demolition in 1987. (Richard Lee-Van den Daele)

Hawley Harvey Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve in the dock at Bow Street Police Court. (Author’s collection)

Jacqueline Poole, who seemingly communicated information to medium Christine Holohan in the days following her death in 1983. (Author’s collection)

Kousar Bashir, the tragic twenty-year-old victim in the Oldham exorcism case. (Author’s collection)

Ethel Major, hanged for poisoning her husband on 19 December 1934. Her ghost is said to haunt Hull Prison to this day. (Steve Fielding)

PAUL ADAMS was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1966 and has been interested in the paranormal since the mid-1970s. Employed as a draughtsman in the UK construction industry for nearly thirty years, he has worked in three haunted buildings but has yet to see a true ghost. As well as the history of psychical research, his main interests at present are in materialisation mediumship, and the physical phenomena of Spiritualism. He has contributed articles to several specialist paranormal periodicals and acted as editor and publisher for
Two Haunted Counties
(2010), the memoirs of Luton ghost-hunter Tony Broughall. He is also co-author of
The Borley Rectory Companion
(2009) and
Shadows in the Nave
(2011) along with Peter Underwood and Eddie Brazil, and has recently completed
Haunted Luton
, where he has lived since 2006. Paul is also an amateur mycologist and viola player.

First published in 2012

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