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Captain Terry Turner, now in his fourth season for the Crimson, is the most long-standing member of the squad. Rounding out the forward's with him will be Tom Fritz, Bill Shane, and Ash Hallett. Hal Churchill is the other center...
...England, rectories appear hardly less haunted than castles. Perhaps the greatest expert on those teasing, furniture-tossing, ructious ghosts called poltergeists was the late British Jesuit, Father Herbert Thurston, who wrote two books and various pamphlets on the subject. Just published are two more notable studies by Roman Catholics: Shane Leslie's Ghost Book (Sheed & Ward; $3) and Occult Phenomena, by Father Alois Wiesinger, an Austrian Trappist (Newman Press...
...Thing. Sir Shane Leslie (of Castle Leslie, County Monaghan, Ireland) saw his first ghost while an undergraduate at Cambridge, and he has been collecting them ever since. A convert to Catholicism (1908), he edited the prestigious Catholic quarterly Dublin Review for nearly a decade, now, at 72, cuts a glorious Irish swath through London on his visits, tricked out in mutton-chop whiskers, cockaded tam-o'-shanter, green kilt and dagger in the stocking. He pursues his ghosts with gusto that may well alarm the shyer shades, as well as some readers. To those who are under the impression...
...dead know when they haunt the living? Writes Sir Shane: "It is possible that they are aware, but the tremendous authority of St. Thomas Aquinas favors the view that the dead are not aware of their own apparitions. Other spirits may be acting the part. In this, St. Thomas has touched one of the stumbling blocks of modern Spiritualism. Manifestations may be genuine, but not the manifester...
...Shane's own original contribution to his collection is what he calls "the last word" on the Coonian Ghost-a Thing that troubled the peace of a house in Coonian, Ireland with rappings, rushings, snatchings, snorings and putting out of lights. Three priests were sent by the bishop to cope with it by exorcism and prayer. One reported that he felt it like an eel twisting around his wrist; another saw the bedclothes of an empty bed heaving where the chest of an occupant would be. "Soon we could hear the heavy breathing, the gurgling in the throat . . . what...