Man's Survival After Death

The haunted vicar of Weston, London, 1920

Man's Survival After Death; or, The Other Side of Life in the Light of Scripture, Human Experience, and Modern Research. Second edition, January 1920, first published October 1909. London: Grant Richards Ltd. Printed by the Riverside Press, Edinburgh. The Rev. Charles Lakeman Tweedale, vicar of Weston, near Otley, was one of the best-known Church of England advocates of spiritualism. He reported psychic phenomena at Weston Vicarage between about 1905 and 1923, a case investigated by W. W. Baggally of the Society for Psychical Research, and in the early 1920s he founded the Society of Communion for spiritualist members of the Church of England. He died in 1944.

For the Weston Vicarage haunting, see "The vicar who spoke to the dead"; for the author, Charles Lakeman Tweedale.