Flying crockery – ‘it’s magnetism’.
After spending 24 hours in the house of “flying furniture” at Seaford, New York State, an observer says he believes he may have solved the mystery. His solution: Two underground streams meet under the home and have set up a magnetic field that passes through the house. For three weeks sugar bowls are reported to have moved by themselves and several other items of crockery and furniture are said to have broken or moved. – B.U.P.
Manchester Evening News, 28th February 1958.
Family plagued by “flying furniture”.
Dr. Gaither Pratt, Director of the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University New York, has been called in to study the mystery of the flying objects in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Hermann. More than three weeks ago, the Hermanns reported that they began to be plagued by bottles which mysterious became uncapped, overturned, spilled, and even flew through the air.
The latest occurrences involved weighty objects like a record player, said to have flown ten feet through the air and crashed against a shelf, and a large world globe which travelled from one room into another. Upset by the unexplained happenings, and beseiged by reporters, photographers and police, the family which includes two children, has now left to stay with relatives.
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 7th March 1958.
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