The Haunted House by Walter Hubbell Fiction Mystery & Detective

<p><strong>THE GREAT AMHERST MYSTERY was the subject of an investigation by Walter Hubbell</strong> an actor with an interest in psychic phenomena who kept what he claimed was a diary of events in the house later expanded into this popular book.</p><p>In 1878 Esther Cox -- a young woman who'd recently suffered a physical attack on her virtue in a small Canadian town in an era when such things were unheard of -- was beset by spirits.<strong> </strong>Unseen hands set themselves on her; sourceless voices spoke to her. She wasn't the only one who saw or experienced these things but she was at the center of the phenomena. The haunting began with the work of a poltergeist: little fires voices and rapping noises. But too soon it escalated to become. . . . THE GREAT AMHERST MYSTERY</p>