Ghostly Drummers

[Eponastill]

Ah like William Mayne's excellent 'Earthfasts' book.

(Oh great, I just googled him and found he's one of the increasingly long list of Undesirables... ghastly)

 

[dejanmikic]

A photo I took of the stone which marks, well the close up of the plaque tells you what it marks.
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Oooh - but whose sock is that????

 

[skinny]

Someone local's I'd say.

 

[Graylien]

That looks like the kind of sock Emos wear.

 

[skinny]

It's not mine.

 

[David Plankton]

I didn't put it there.

 

[dejanmikic]

I am sure it wasn't there when you filmed it That little ghost drummer must be member of MCRmy

 

[EnolaGaia]

... I know water dripping through limestone can sound remarkably like a drum in the distance, if the acoustics are right- there's a natural cavern near me that's a popular tourist spot, and the tour guides specifically point out the sound. I'm sure other natural phenomena could fit the bill.
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I can attest to another natural source of tapping / knocking sounds in creeks with rocky beds. It's possible for relatively flat and smooth 'river rocks' to be piled in such a way that one or more stones teeter and rock with the water's flow. I've traced repetitive tapping (etc.) sounds to such tipping stones more than once.

 

[GeorgeP]

Oooh - but whose sock is that????

That not a sock boy, it be one of those fire worms.

 

[Yithian]

Suprised, no one has mentioned Drake's Drum

I don't like some of this reader's work, but he has a good voice for this one:

Or we can go musical:

 

[SimonBurchell]

I've a query for anyone more knowledgeable about the Drummer of Tidworth than me. I've recently been reading a book on haunted Wiltshire, and I came across a claim that the drummer haunted Mompesson House in Salisbury. It was always my understanding that it had haunted a house in Tidworth, hence phantom drummer of Tidworth. Both the house in Salisbury and the house in Tidworth were said to belong to John Mompesson in the 17th century. Anyone got any clarification on this?