Case file · Haunting
The Stockwell ghost
On 6 January 1772 crockery, eggs and food flew about the house of Mrs Golding in Stockwell, south London; the disturbances followed her into neighbours' houses.
1772 CE · 51.47, -0.12 · status: hoax
The account
The disturbances stopped when her maid Ann Robinson left. A pamphlet presented the case as supernatural.
The sceptical view
Robinson later reportedly confessed years later that she had done it with wires and horsehair.