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Post by Warren Davies on Oct 15, 2003 17:33:16 GMT -5
Objects flew from room to room. TV sets and bookcases fell over, seemingly all by themselves. Lamps crashed to the floor. The media went nuts! "Poldergeists in Seaford" said Newsday. Edward R. Murrow's TV show "Person to Person" came to Seaford to do an interview. Were any of you neighbors? I think they lived in the Manor and had a daughter and son [Tommy?"]. It had to have been crazy living close to them.
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Post by flyby61 on Oct 15, 2003 18:22:15 GMT -5
It was in the mid to late 50's. If I remember right, this went on for weeks. The girl was in high school and her brother was in jr high, I think. When the truth came out I think that it was the brother the whole time.
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Post by Marilyn61 on Oct 18, 2003 13:25:41 GMT -5
It took a long time but I think that the whole thing ended up being a hoax. Yes, it DID get National attention. It was on TV and in the papers for weeks. The parents and the sister weren't in on it. It was just the boy.
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Post by Warren111qwert on Nov 11, 2003 18:42:52 GMT -5
According to Newsday, there were 67 occurrences between February 3rd and March 10th 1958. The sister's name was Lucille. She was 13 years old. Her younger brother, Jimmy, was 12. Try as they did, no one was ever able to pin this on Jimmy ( or anyone else for that matter ), and the case remains unexplained and unsolved to this day.
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Post by BRIAN on Dec 17, 2003 14:56:23 GMT -5
The Edward R. Murrow show was "You Are There". The Person to Person show was when he interviewed celebrities and politicians. The street was closed off when the crew came. Neither Jimmy nor his sister would talk about it much once the dust settled. I think that they moved away not long after.
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Post by john dobry on Aug 6, 2004 12:39:21 GMT -5
i was the hermans neighbor on beechwood pl .i also was an usher with mr. herman at st.williams.may he and his wife lucille rip.this whole thing was a big hoax.
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Post by Kevin Conway on Jan 17, 2005 17:36:23 GMT -5
I was in the house a few weeks after everything died down. I lived on Parkview. Their house faced Pittsburg. The street layout was like a giant tuning fork with the house in the bottom of the "U". Something did happen there...a reporter was in the house when a globe or something flew across the living room.
Later there was an article in Reader's Digest.
Some scientists thought there was something creating a magnetic field - a bit far fetched.
I remember the family was still upset about the whole thing and a bit bewildered. I don't blame them for moving. Nothing ever happened again.
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Post by stacyhorn on Oct 15, 2006 10:15:21 GMT -5
Hi. I am a writer and I just posted that I was looking for James and/or Lucille. I'm writing a book about the former Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, and one of the scientists from the lab was one of the many people who looked into this.
I thought James graduated from Seaford High School in 1963, according to school records. Are you sure they moved away?
And John Dobry, do you have evidence that it was all of hoax? Did someone in the family admit to something to you? As far as I can tell, whether or not there is a natural explanation for what happened, and there very well might be, it was never proved to be a hoax, although that could be true too, but again, no evidence for that was ever found.
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Post by Harry Andrews on Aug 21, 2010 2:12:20 GMT -5
Stacy Horn = I have searched through many archives and could not find a writing, but, I am certain that several years later Jimmy confessed to throwing and knocking down the objects.
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