who perceive the phenomena have a wider experience, such a variety of
persons appear that the ghostly appearance loses its individuality
if not its authenticity. Mr. Podmore discusses such cases.[20] In Mr.
Podmore's book when Poltergeists, Cock-lore ghost affairs, are discussed,
it appears that genuine hallucinations may be associated with fraudulent
physical phenomena.

[Footnote 20: "Studies," pp. 305-308; Chap. x. Haunted Houses.]

These are, it may be positively stated, hypnotic hallucinations. The two
together in some cases, as in the one already mentioned[21] of "Alice,"
amount to a very good ghost story, the blood on the floor alone excepted.
Alice's home was a terrace house in a town. The House at B---- was very
large and somewhat lonely.

[Footnote 21: "Podmore," p. 153.]

It is, however, less than 200 yards from a road along the Tay, that river
running parallel to its front to the southward of it.

Rights of way from the north-west pass north of the house, and there were
some empty lodges there; these might afford shelter to the persons of
strong hypnotic power who chose to play the ghost. The continuity of the
noises at night would be thus facilitated. The house belonged to the
grand-nephew of a retired Indian major. It is apparently suggested
that the major's relations with a young housekeeper were suspicious. The
two and a native Indian servant are buried in the kirkyard at L----;
presumably Logierait.

The haunted house is, as was said, at Ballechin in Perthshire; and it may