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Posted: 05-10-2009 14:25 Post subject: No Nightingales

Has anyone read the book "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon about two military ghosts in Berkeley Square? It is a gentle comedy. Sorry if a bit off topic.

Posted: 05-10-2009 21:07 Post subject:

Not off-topic at all. Smile

It was turned into a sweet film called The Ghosts of Berkely Square, starring Robert Morley.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039421/

Posted: 05-10-2009 21:11 Post subject:

I'd forgotten about the film!

Posted: 23-10-2009 21:40 Post subject:

Posted: 24-10-2009 10:48 Post subject:

I don't think she was putting off a "ghost-hunter". On nearly every programme or documentary after listing all the supposed (and discredited) paranormal events in the location, every member of staff has said nothing has happened in their time.

Posted: 01-11-2009 20:29 Post subject:

For what it's worth I worked for a year at No. 50 Berkeley Square (it was a bank then).
Never experienced anything remotely ghostly. Sad

Posted: 27-11-2009 11:22 Post subject:

Posted: 27-11-2009 11:42 Post subject:

Let me add that the story of a night spent alone in the haunted room has been radio-dramatized at least twice (although the location isn't mentioned) - on the South African series BEYOND MIDNIGHT (circa 1968) and later on the Canadian series NIGHTFALL (circa 1980). Both can be found free online.

Posted: 03-12-2009 23:41 Post subject:

Thank you! Smile

Posted: 11-12-2009 19:37 Post subject:

Posted: 20-06-2013 01:36 Post subject:

I was on a ghost tour tonight which stopped off here.

The guide claims she's been in contact with the book-dealers who currently work there, and they have a policy of never leaving one person behind in the building to lock up... it always has to be at least two.

This didn't however come with any contemporary tales of ghosts!

Posted: 21-06-2013 00:38 Post subject:

http://www.bartleby.com/166/6.html

This story 'The House and the Brain ' by Sir Edward Bullwer Lytton is thought to have influenced the yarn.