Alma Fielding and the Thornton Heath Haunting
Morbid

Alma Fielding and the Thornton Heath Haunting

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 12, 20261 hr 7 min

In February 1938, thirty-four-year-old housewife Alma Fielding went to the press with an amazing story: her home in the London suburb of Croydon was haunted. According to Alma, objects would fly off the shelves without the aid of human hands, the family was constantly under assault from unseen forces, and on multiple occasions, they found a six-fingered handprint on a mirror. It was through a local clergyman that paranormal investigator Nandor Fodor learned of Alma’s haunting and he was immediately interested in the family. As a member of the International Institute for Psychical Research, Fodor had recently co...

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Hey, weirdos, I'm Alina. I'm Osh. This is morbid. ["Wear Those

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Pills"] Yoss. Yoss. Yoss.

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Yoss. That's more balls. I don't know. That just came to me in the moment.

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