dave costello
31st October 2011, 16:48
:cool:The magistrate of Tedworth in Wiltshire,England,could not have imagined the consequences when he confiscated the drum belonging to William Drury-an itinerant musician caught in some shady dealings-and told him to leave the district. That was March 1662. Hardly had the culprit left Tedworth when the drum began to produce drumming noises itself. It also flew around Magistrate Mompessons house,seen by several people besides the magistrate . After several sleepless nights he had the drum broken into pieces. Still the drumming continued. Nor was that all. Shoes flew through the air,and chamber pots were emptied onto beds. Children were levitated. A horses rear leg was forced into its mouth. The possibility that the exiled drummer had sneaked back and was causing the trouble was fairly well ruled out when it was discovered that he had been arrested foe theft in the city of Gloucester and sent to the colonies. The Reverend Joseph Glanville,chaplain to King Charles 11.came to Tedworth to investigate the phenomena. He heard the drumming himself and collected eyewitness reports from the residents. No natural cause was found for the effects,which stopped exactly one year after they had started.