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The haunting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mary Lukas  and
Ellen Lukas
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In the early winter of 1953, just after the debunking of the Piltdown fossil forgery perpetrated in the early part of this century near Uckfield, Sussex, a blizzard of correspondence descended on the British Museum (Natural History). Among the letters was a fairly ominous one addressed to Kenneth Oakley. Purporting to be a message from one 'Elihu Progwhistle', a professional medium whose seances were being monopolized by a spirit 'identifying itself as the solicitor Charles Dawson', the note angrily denounced the whole investigation. It relayed the ghost's warning that it would take violent extra-legal action against the Piltdown detectives unless they gave up the search.

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Antiquity , Volume 57 , Issue 219 , March 1983 , pp. 7 - 11
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1983

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