ButterflyMaiden Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 I was listening to Manx Radio today and someone mentioned a tv program was to be made about the Dalby Spook. Can anyone tell me what it is ? (The Dalby Spook that is..not the tv program) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrotlima Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 I am pretty sure that it is Gef, the talking Mongoose. There is a book called "Supernatural Isle Of Man" which explains it a lot better than I can! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrotlima Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 And so does this clicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 I posted some of the original 1932 newspaper articles on this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Fugit Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Spookeeeeeeee ! not far off haloween now (or is it hop-tu-naa !) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrotlima Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Clicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhumsaa Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 I love that story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 He knows a talking mongoose too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*DD* Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 ooo spooky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsTrellisfromNorthWales Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 What I don't get is why he's called "Gef". It's such an unusual spelling. Did the Dalby Spook himself actually spell it out for posterity? If he didn't, surely he'd have been called Geoff or Jeff. Or is the G hard (as in got) rather than the J sound (like giant)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speckled Frost Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 It's with a hard G. The reason he is so called is because every time Voirrey tried to explain the strange creature to someone she was always greeted with a 'get f***ed'. So she shortened it and hence the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsTrellisfromNorthWales Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 No wonder the people of Peel look down on those from Dalby - the true gobbags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 Mrs Irving called it 'Jack' in those early newspaper reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 There's a story about someone I know (and very much trust) who was once travelling across the road generally from "Fort North" towards Castletown and they saw what seemed to be an injured stoat or weasel struggling along the road. Not really the sort of behaviour from a wild animal, but when my friend saw the distressed animal and switched off their Honda scooter's engine, the animal moved towards them and gathered around his ankles. My friend picked the animal up and put it in their scooter luggage box (where there was still a crust of bread from their packed lunch) and they carefully made their way back home with the intention of showing the injured animal to a vet. By the time they'd arrived home, despite their best efforts to seal the box, (to my knowledge it had a fairly sturdy catch that shouldn't, by rights, be able to be opened from inside) the stoat or weasel was nowhere to be found, despite evidence of them munching on the crust of bread that was there. A (slightly ghost-obsessed) mate of mine suggested that it was an encounter with the famous Gef, but then there were certainly no examples of animals speaking English in this time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furry Mongoose Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 It's meeeee - My cover is blown... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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