Word: bridey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your reviewer was flippant in his Feb. 20 review of The Search for Bridey Murphy, and indicated that he was afraid to face the issues involved. Although they have not had time to check all of Bridey's story about her life in Ireland in the last century, there is little, if anything, which the searchers have found to contradict...
...newspaperman from Denver was being interviewed here in connection with his recent visit to "locate" the birthplace etc. of Bridey. He had visited Cork and Belfast and appreciated the tremendous help given him by the local people throughout, though he said they were "laughing up their sleeves" at his research...
Although research in Ireland has failed to back up much of Bridey's story, Ruth Simmons is remarkably precise in "reliving" her previous "incarnation," e.g., she calls herself the daughter of a Protestant barrister, tells how she married a Roman Catholic ("Father John had the banns published") and hovered at her own funeral ("I watched them ditch my body...
Suggestible readers who want to continue the séance can buy an LP record ($5.95) on which Bridey can be heard gasping out her story. She sounds somewhat like a savagely beaten gun moll who is being quizzed by the opposition gang...