The Sunderland Poltergeist - Knocks, Heavenly Music & a Voice Claiming to Be Jesus

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In 1840, twelve-year-old Mary Jobson lay ill in a Sunderland tenement when the knocks began — always three times. Then a voice claiming to be Jesus started speaking from her bedside.Documented in detail by respected physician Dr William Reid Clanny, this is one of the strangest and least-known poltergeist cases of the 19th century. Heavenly music, family secrets revealed, a miraculous recovery… and the shadow of the cholera epidemic that first hit Britain in Sunderland.Our featured guest is Historian Stephen Miller of The Poltergeist Project, he tells the full story.

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