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The Room in the Tower: the ‘real’ hauntings that inspired this year’s BBC Ghost Story for Christmas adaptation

The Room in the Tower: the ‘real’ hauntings that inspired this year’s BBC Ghost Story for Christmas adaptation

Benson’s mother was Mary Sidgwick, whose brother Henry was a founding member and first president of the Society for Psychical Research.

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Alice Vernon

The Room in the Tower: the ‘real’ hautings that inspired this year’s BBC Ghost Story for Christmas adaptation

The Room in the Tower: the ‘real’ hautings that inspired this year’s BBC Ghost Story for Christmas adaptation

Benson’s mother was Mary Sidgwick, whose brother Henry was a founding member and first president of the Society for Psychical Research.

23.12.2025 3

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Alice Vernon

After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home

Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.

29.10.2025 2

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Alice Vernon

Why we keep hunting ghosts – and what it says about us

From Victorian séances to TikTok, our hunt for ghosts reveals more about the living than the dead.

20.10.2025 5

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Alice Vernon