Rosina Despard
A medical student and later physician who was the principal witness to the Cheltenham Ghost, running informal tests on the apparition and publishing her account for the Society for Psychical Research under the pseudonym R. C. Morton.
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- The Cheltenham Ghost1882-1889
Rosina Despard investigated The Cheltenham Ghost — The principal witness, who ran informal tests (stretched threads, an attempted photograph, a direct address) and kept contemporaneous notes.
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Rosina Despard is associated with Society for Psychical Research — Supplied the primary testimony the Society published under the pseudonym R. C. Morton.