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tree_and_leaf) wrote2015-08-14 10:13 am
tree_and_leaf) wrote2015-08-14 10:13 am
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Apologies; this is a link to the Daily Star...
... who are running a ridiculous silly season story about a photo alleged to show Norwich Cathedral being haunted by the ghost of a bishop.* It's obvious nonsense, but I was amused by the final lines of the report:
Builders are said to have sparked poltergeist activity during the 1980s.
The incidents stopped after a visit from Church of England officials but other eerie figures have since been seen roaming the building. (emphasis mine).
Assuming that this is accurately reported (dangerous, I know), "visit" implies that this wasn't just a member of Chapter splashing some holy water around, and does strongly suggest that they got the diocesan exorcist in. As the Star has no interest whatsoever in making a story like this less sensational, I wonder if the diocesan press officer is to be congratulated on making an exorcism sound so dull that no-one wanted to ask for further details....
* Actually, in as much as it looks like a human figure at all to me, it looks more like a member of one of those Spanish penitent guilds that parade in Holy Week, or possibly the KKK, neither of whom seem likely to be haunting Norwich.
Builders are said to have sparked poltergeist activity during the 1980s.
The incidents stopped after a visit from Church of England officials but other eerie figures have since been seen roaming the building. (emphasis mine).
Assuming that this is accurately reported (dangerous, I know), "visit" implies that this wasn't just a member of Chapter splashing some holy water around, and does strongly suggest that they got the diocesan exorcist in. As the Star has no interest whatsoever in making a story like this less sensational, I wonder if the diocesan press officer is to be congratulated on making an exorcism sound so dull that no-one wanted to ask for further details....
* Actually, in as much as it looks like a human figure at all to me, it looks more like a member of one of those Spanish penitent guilds that parade in Holy Week, or possibly the KKK, neither of whom seem likely to be haunting Norwich.
Re: other eerie figures