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September Spooks: Ghostly Visions and Screaming Skulls

Tuesday 6 September 2022 7pm - 7.30pm start £5 / £3 Concessions Advance Booking The Miller , 96 Snowsfields, London Bridge, London SE1 3SS Tube and Rail: London Bridge Facebook Page   London Fortean Email List The autumn brings darker nights and an encroaching chill. Join us for two talks on haunted moments and macabre encounters. Sandra Lawrence - Miss Willmott and the Mystery of the Screaming Skulls In November 1899, famous horticulturalist Miss Ellen Willmott - best known for (allegedly) sprinkling the seeds of a ghostly sea holly in other people's gardens - was intrigued to learn of a strange sickness that had recently befallen three young men after touching two curious human skulls kept at Warbleton Priory in Sussex. A longtime member of the Society for Psychical Research, Miss Willmott asked her acquaintance to send her details... Sandra Lawrence is the author of 14 non-fiction books for adults and children, on a variety of subjects, ranging from history (including Murder an