
Seances, skis and secrets: an extraordinary WWI escape
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Can the Spirits Find a Buried Treasure?
In 19 16 spiritualism was very much a going concern in the UK. Even eminent men of science, like conan doyle, authentically believed that it was possible for the living to converse with the dead. Jones is a barrister who's trained in persuasive argumentation and rhetoric. He knows how to pull the wool over people's eyes. And so he thinks what was formerly just a lark might be my ticket out of this place. The spirits are a little vague about precisely where there is a set of cryptic clues that jones ant hill make up and covertly bury in the landscape around the camp. It took me a couple of years of living with this material to realize
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