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Lord Dufferin's Irish Ghost: A Victorian Urban Legend

EPISODE · Aug 15, 2020 · 41 MIN

Lord Dufferin's Irish Ghost: A Victorian Urban Legend

from Wide Atlantic Weird · host Cian

Ulsterman and Victorian celebrity Lord Dufferin held the highest positions in the British Empire during its heyday, but he was most famous for a classic ghost story he told about a strange happening at Tullamore. It's a brandy-and-cigar kind of tale. Dive down the rabbithole with us as we try to find the source of the story in an adventure that involves Charles Dickens, the madness-inducing King In Yellow, and of course, various 19th century mystics and occultists (but you knew that already, right?). Sources: Ghosts & Haunted Houses, Maple & Myring, Usborne, 1979 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunted-Houses-Spectres-Usborne-pocketbooks/dp/0860202461 Tychy.wordpress.com: Premonitory Tales https://tychy.wordpress.com/tag/premonitory-tales/ Death And Its Mystery, Camille Flammarion, 1921 https://books.google.ie/books/about/Death_and_Its_Mystery.html?id=3ZUrAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y The Lost Imperialist, Andrew Gailey, John Murray, 2015 https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Imperialist-Dufferin-Mythmaking-Celebrity/dp/1444792431 The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers, 1895 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm Legitimacy of Unbelief: The Collected Papers of Piet Hein Hoebens, 2017 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legitimacy-Unbelief-Collected-Perspektiven-Anomalistik/dp/3643908555 Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator, Andreas Bernard, NYU Press, 2014 https://books.google.ie/books/about/Lifted.html?id=ryegAgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y Music & Sound: Moonlight Sonata, Audio Library No Copyright Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q91NKLjxXyg Deep Horrors, Kevin McLeod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7URbQvJzztI Crowd Talking, Free Sound Effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLld3JVwxew

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