Paranormal record / 1883
Loppington, north Shropshire. Late October 1883. A servant girl of about 13 named Emma Davies is working on John Hampson's farm. Then the coal begins to leap from the fire. A saucepan jumps off the hob. Crockery rises from the table and falls, one or two pieces at a time. Small fires break out with flames "very high and white". Emma is sent home to Weston Lullingfields. The disturbances seem to follow her. Then, in a doctor's house in Wem, she is seen throwing a piece of brick. She confesses. Yet the investigator who reported for the Society for Psychical Research could not explain it all away.
In the autumn of 1883, Emma Davies was about 13. A labourer's daughter, she worked as a servant at The Woods, also known as Wood's Farm, the home of farmer John Hampson in Loppington, near Wem in north Shropshire. Her fellow servant, Priscilla Evans, was "about 16".