A sceptical author, Trevor H. Hall looked at famous English hauntings and searched for ordinary causes. In 1958 he turned to Hinton Ampner. There, he proposed, underground water was mainly responsible for the noises. In 1965 his book New Light on Old Ghosts took up the Bealings Bells. Hall concluded that Moor was not a reliable witness. One of his servants, he argued, had duped him with a practical joke. That same year he favoured natural causes for the Epworth Rectory knockings.
Stories5
Pro earlyThe Hinton Ampner Haunting: Mary Ricketts' Narrative
27Thinly documented
Author who proposed underground water as the cause
Pro earlyThe Bealings Bells: phantom bell-ringing at Bealings House, Great Bealings, Suffolk
21Thinly documented
Sceptical author of New Light on Old Ghosts (1965), proposed a servant's prank
Pro earlyThe Ashley House levitation: Daniel Dunglas Home floats between third-floor windows, London 1868
18Thinly documented
Sceptical author of The Enigma of Daniel Home (1984)
Pro earlyKatie King materialisations: Florence Cook and William Crookes
45Partially documented
Historian who argued Cook was fraudulent