Do Spooks Tell Lies?
Do Spooks Tell Lies? is an article published in the Daily Express on 5 november 1917.
Do Spooks Tell Lies?
TROUSER PROBLEM FOR SIR A. CONAN DOYLE.
The following are extracts from a few of the many letters that have reached the "Daily Express" regarding Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's belief that spooks wear clothes and that they do so because modesty continues after death:—
MODEST MAN'S DILEMMA.
As I am a modest and retiring man, I am still greatly disturbed in mind to know how I shall be able to keep my trousers up, seeing that braces will have no material shoulders to depend on. — E. Turner, Forest Gate, E.
QUITE UNNECESSARY.
It is difficult to realise the same need for modesty on a spritual plane as on a physical; while those of us who resent the tyranny of clothes here will not be able to escape it there, because I suppose, public opinion would be scandalised. — F. W. D., Jewin-street, E.C.
C.O.D.?.
The question naturally arises, What kind of clothes — material or ethereal? If the former, how and whence do the "spooks" get them? They certainly cannot pay for them. If the latter, by what process do they become so? Perhaps Sir Arthur will enlighten us. — O. R., Bedford-square, Brighton.
FRAUD AT SEANCES.
Mr. Elliott O'Donnell, presiding at a lecture by Mr. F. H. Skrine on "Ghost Stories — Irish and Others," at the Psychical Research Society on Saturday evening, said that the many séances he had attended had not been at all satisfactory in their results. "One can never quite reject the possibility of fraud," he added, "and another point has been overlooked which nullifies the value of these seances — the messages are not always truthful."
