Ballechin continued
The story of Ada Goodrich Freer is interesting,
Because she was able to pass herself off as many things,
By bluff, if you like, without the credentials to do so.
To some extent in today's society where everyone is pigeonholed
almost at pains of public flogging, you almost admire her for that.
She got away with posing as a teenager, when she was in her thirties,
as well as alleging herself to be psychic,
but this was a period, when you could easily do this.
She claimed to have Socts ancestry, hence getting various jobs in Scotland,
But hadn't. She even went out to the islands scouting
for folklore information without a word of Gaelic.
Hence her impressing herself on Lord Bute, and other menfolk,
and bluffing her way along. But probably that was how
to do what she had to, to prosper in Victorian society.
She led an investigation with guest researchers
much like Price was to do at Borley,
and her book contains tables of who saw or felt what during their stay.
Look for the critique by J.C.Ross in the Times in 1897
If you have access to the Times indexes.
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