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Victorian poacher sparks will o’ the wisp scare August 3, 2010

Posted by Beachcombing in : Modern
Victorian poacher sparks will o’ the wisp scare

About six weeks ago Beachcombing gave space to a Victorian gamekeeper’s description of a Will o’ the Wisp (or something similar) seen in a wood one night. Tonight Beachcombing gives, instead, an account from the other side of the tracks. A poacher whose tricks might explain several nineteenth-century accounts of floating lights through the trees. One [...]