As several people had posted new information in the thread on the Montrose Ghost, which arose out of a recent article by Robert Charman in the SPR Journal, I emailed him with a link to the thread. He replied, saying he had appreciated the opportunity to read the discussion.
He also mentioned a case he had dealt with in an article in the previous number of the SPR Journal. The article was written with Steve Hume, and was entitled "The Case of Colonel Henderson and The Apparition of Captain Hinchliffe Revisited - A Crisis Apparition?" It was mentioned in a blog post by ersby as an example of "best writing in parapsychology". I'm not sure whether it is meant to be, but the number of the SPR Journal containing the paper is available here:
https://www.spr.ac.uk/sites/spr.ac.uk/fi...%20web.pdf
The story, as recounted by J. G. Fuller, in "The airmen who would not die" (1979), was that an apparition of the aviator Walter Hinchliffe had appeared to Colonel George Henderson at around the time when he was lost during a Transatlantic flight in March 1928. Fuller wrote that Henderson knew nothing of the flight, and also that the apparition mentioned that he was flying with a woman, which wasn't public knowledge at the time.
However, a closer investigation indicated that the story wasn't what it seemed, and that the claimed date of the apparition was inconsistent with the other information given.
The odd thing is that Fuller's main source seems to have been a letter to the press, which he said had been written by Henderson's friend Rivers Oldmeadow in 1961. In response to an enquiry from Oldmeadow's daughter, Fuller said he had found the letter "while rummaging through the files of the Royal Aeronautical Society and newspaper clippings", but didn't enclose a copy or say where it had been published. Subsequent searches failed to discover the letter.
Robert Charman suggested we might like to have a look for the letter. I had a try, and came across several letters written to different magazines by Oldmeadow*, but not the one about the apparition of Hinchliffe.
(*Edit: On Google Books.)
He also mentioned a case he had dealt with in an article in the previous number of the SPR Journal. The article was written with Steve Hume, and was entitled "The Case of Colonel Henderson and The Apparition of Captain Hinchliffe Revisited - A Crisis Apparition?" It was mentioned in a blog post by ersby as an example of "best writing in parapsychology". I'm not sure whether it is meant to be, but the number of the SPR Journal containing the paper is available here:
https://www.spr.ac.uk/sites/spr.ac.uk/fi...%20web.pdf
The story, as recounted by J. G. Fuller, in "The airmen who would not die" (1979), was that an apparition of the aviator Walter Hinchliffe had appeared to Colonel George Henderson at around the time when he was lost during a Transatlantic flight in March 1928. Fuller wrote that Henderson knew nothing of the flight, and also that the apparition mentioned that he was flying with a woman, which wasn't public knowledge at the time.
However, a closer investigation indicated that the story wasn't what it seemed, and that the claimed date of the apparition was inconsistent with the other information given.
The odd thing is that Fuller's main source seems to have been a letter to the press, which he said had been written by Henderson's friend Rivers Oldmeadow in 1961. In response to an enquiry from Oldmeadow's daughter, Fuller said he had found the letter "while rummaging through the files of the Royal Aeronautical Society and newspaper clippings", but didn't enclose a copy or say where it had been published. Subsequent searches failed to discover the letter.
Robert Charman suggested we might like to have a look for the letter. I had a try, and came across several letters written to different magazines by Oldmeadow*, but not the one about the apparition of Hinchliffe.
(*Edit: On Google Books.)
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