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“have been too presumptuous: and, whether spirits be or be not permitted to appear, that they exist, I ever shall believe.”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“he opened the doors, and found the wood spread about the room, the chairs tossed about, and broken, the papers torn, and the ink-glass broken (as has been said); but not the least track of any human creature,”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“a publican in the neighbourhood, bringing a pot of beer into the house, about eleven o'clock at night, was so frightened that he let the beer fall,”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“follow her into an anti-room,”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“a tall man, dressed in long vestments, with a white beard, and a young man in white, with large wings at his shoulders, alight from a hackney-coach,”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“moralized nearly the whole of the night on the simplicity of a great part of mankind in being so credulous as to believe every idle tale, or conceive every noise to be a spectre, without first duly examining into causes.”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“had gone through the better half of my first sleep,”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“A young gentleman, going down from London to the west of England, to the house of a very worthy gentleman, to whom he had the honour to be related; it happened, that the gentleman's house was at that time full, by season of a kinswoman's wedding, that had lately been kept there.”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“by what ways and means, since miracles ceased, this transformation can be effected;”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“in a short time, she felt what she supposed to be a hand again in the bed: she again endeavoured to repress it, and, looking towards the foot of the bed, saw a large luminous cross, on which was written distinctly, as with light, the words, "Be Silent!”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“It is usual to place the corpse in an open coffin; and a priest, attended only by a boy of the choir, remains all night praying by the side of the dead body,”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“ENTERTAINING STORIES, FOUNDED ON FACT, And selected for the purpose of ERADICATING THOSE FEARS, WHICH THE IGNORANT, THE WEAK, AND THE SUPERSTITIOUS, ARE BUT TOO APT TO ENCOURAGE, FOR WANT OF PROPERLY EXAMINING INTO THE CAUSES OF SUCH ABSURD IMPOSITIONS.”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“Her sister, attending her funeral, was surprised at not seeing a plate upon the coffin,”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“the two-pair of stairs room,”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

“He passed on, however; but protested, had not the shame of being laughed at, prevented him, he would have forfeited more than twice the sum he had staked to have been safe out again.”
― Joseph Taylor, Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed