Fifty Years a Medium – Chapter 5, 4/7 by Estelle Roberts

As we had done all we could in the gallery for the time being, we left to the comfort of the drawing room. Here Red Cloud took control and speaking through me, he told us what lay behind these visitations.

The spirit form I had seen was a brother of a former owner of the house who had been strangled to death in an upstairs room. Before his death the murdered man had concealed some ancient manuscripts which his earthbound brother was now perpetually hunting.

“Is there anything distinctive about the papers?” the present owner asked Red Cloud.
“They are of parchment, written in Latin and Hebrew, each sealed with a great seal.”
“What must be done with them when they are found?”

There will be no rest for this unhappy spirit or for those who inhabit this house until the parchments have been destroyed.”
When I came out of the trance our host excused himself and returned some minutes later with a large metal studded box. He placed it on the table and opened the lid wide so we could all see inside.

Then, almost reverently, he withdrew some parchment documents, carrying the biggest seal I had ever seen. The seal was already broken and our host carefully opened each document in turn.
“As you will see,” he said quietly, “they are written in Latin and Hebrew.”

I was never told whether or not the papers were destroyed. Since, as recently as last year, I heard the hauntings were continuing, I am sure they were not destroyed.

A particularly unpleasant case was brought to my notice by Colonel Castello. The Colonel, who had experienced many reunions with his war-pilot son through my mediumship, now sought my help for two of his friends. They were a married couple, living in a country house which they declared was the subject of some sort of hoodoo.