Alma Fielding, he thought, might just be the genuine article. Sponsor Message Over the next several months, he investigated the phenomena and her relationship to it, as it was clear from the get ...

By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent The Haunting of Alma Fielding is a true ghost story and an unconventional love story. In 1938, Alma Fielding, an ordinary young housewife, begins to experience ...

By Marilyn Stasio THE HAUNTING OF ALMA FIELDING A True Ghost Story By Kate Summerscale There goes an egg, sailing across the living room to smash into a sideboard. And here comes a big chunk of ...

In 1938, young housewife Alma Fielding begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Objects shatter, vanish, or take flight, assaulting Fielding and her family. Reporters see it ...

Alma Fielding eventually moved to the countryside, where she occasionally held seances. And she died in 1976. And whether a poltergeist actually haunted her is not a question that's easy for Kate ...

The Haunting of Alma Fielding, by Kate Summerscale (Penguin Press). In nineteen-thirties London, the Hungarian parapsychologist Nandor Fodor began studying Alma Fielding, a housewife who claimed ...

The reader is Emma Fielding. The Haunting of Alma Fielding tells the story of a seemingly happily married housewife whose home and family are assailed by a lively and frightening poltergeist in 1938.

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Almost a thousand of them wrote in. Alma Fielding, a 34-year-old housewife from the South London suburb of Thornton Heath, rang the paper (a ghost didn’t seem a case for the police, she said). As she ...

In 1938, a London woman named Alma Fielding reported that objects were mysteriously flying around her house, terrifying her family. Her case attracted the attention of a paranormal researcher ...

In 1938, a housewife went to the press complaining of a poltergeist in her home — and a ghost hunter investigated. Kate Summerscale's true tale is about women and power, anxiety, and choices.