It began with a key.
His titles included "Haunted London" and "Haunted Wandsworth.".
He is a member of The Ghost Club and was the librarian for the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP) for many years.
James Clark has been researching London\'s ghost stories for almost twenty years.
Now that her children have grown up, she can finally reveal the full story.
She still possesses the original files of the psychical researcher who investigated these events, as well as her family\'s journals from the time.
About author(s): Shirley Hitchings was at the center of this incredible haunting.
Soon, the spirit had begun to make simply incredible claims about his identity, insisting that he was one of the most famous figures in world hiStory - but what was the truth? Here, for the first time, is the full story, told by the woman right at the heart of it all - Shirley herself.
The spirit, who quickly became known as \'Donald\', began to communicate, initially via tapping sounds, but over time - and with the encouragement of psychical researcher Harold Chibbett, whose case-files appear here - by learning to write.
This seemingly insignificant event heralded the beginning of one of the most terrifying, incredible and mysterious hauntings in British history.
One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings \' bed.
It began with a key
