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'Mysterious Mitcham' is the online sequel to the original 'Strange Mitcham' , which contains stories not found on this website:
Second (2011) edition is now available.
Also available for Kindle.
'MYSTERIOUS
MITCHAM'
Contents:
Front Cover
Introduction
Receive Updates
Map
Part 1 - Mitcham:
The Phantom Cyclist
of Mitcham Common
(update to Strange
Mitcham)
A Dark Figure on
Mitcham Common
Tales from the Vestry
Hall
'Calico Jack': The
Playful Ghost of
Lacks the Drapers
The Faces on the
Walls: Hancock's
Cottages
The Haunted Cottages
in Tramway Path
The 'Haunting' of Hall
Place
The Legend of
Mitcham Fair
Remember the Grotto
The Phantom of the
'Folly'
An Apparition at
Woof & Sabine
Haunted Rooms at Fry
Metals
The Phantom Cat
Mitcham's (not so)
Haunted Mansion
The Kingston Zodiac
The 'Ghost Tree'
Ghostly Gardeners,
Medicinal Plants and
A Magical Tree
The 'Thing'
The Wrath of God
A Ghostly Experience
in Morden Road
Mitcham Clock Tower:
When Time Ran
Backwards
The Rosier Family
Legend
The 'Ball of Fire'
UFO over Mitcham
Common, 2004
UFO over Tooting
Bec Common, 1990
Part 2 - South of
Mitcham Common:
Carew Manor
The Ghosts of
Beddington Park
Beddington Parish
Church & Churchyard
The Figure in the
Alley
Under Beddington
A Spectral Cavalier
Other Information:
Author's website
The Mitcham Ghost
Ride
Strange Mitcham
(2002): Errata
Strange Mitcham
(2011)
Paperback:
Kindle:
Haunted Wandsworth
(2006)
Covers the London Borough of Wandsworth (Balham, Battersea, Putney, Tooting & Wandsworth):
Haunted London
(2007)
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A Ghostly Experience in Morden Road
In 1975, Christopher Patterson had what he describes as a 'ghostly experience' in the box room of his family's house in Morden Road.
His father had recently passed away and he was at the house because his mother had asked him to decorate his father's room. Because his wife was away visiting her own mother at the time, Mr Patterson decided to stay over that night.
'Whilst in the room,' he recalls, 'I had, several times, an extraordinarily strong feeling that my father came in (it would perhaps be more accurate to say was blown in) and stood behind me. At night I had the same feeling that he came in and sat on my bed.
'I never mentioned this until several years later, after my mother died, when I told a young nephew who was the last member of the family actually to live there. He then told me that neither he nor his friends had liked being in the room, because of a feeling that someone was staring at them, and that no one would sleep there.'
[Source: personal communication with Christopher Patterson, November 2004.]
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