Post by mecano04 on Aug 23, 2017 21:57:42 GMT
I was just remembering stories from the Readers Digest Mysteries of the Unexplained, so I'm not sure about all the facts of each situation.
The horse's name was "Lady"? Interesting! I'd never heard that before. I think it's one interesting story.
I've heard conflicting stories about the "suicide," and I too haven't found much information about Gros. Stuff to work on.
I'll attempt to look up the Denney story on Ancestry.com. (We get it free through my library.)
By the by: do you know how your former co-worker managed to purloin the TV?
It was an hospital but one build the way they did in the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century so it wasn't all open areas like they do today. It was halls leading to various sized rooms depending on their usage. There wasn't many wide open rooms but it was one.
It was used for activities for the residents. The TV, like the 3 others in the same room, was held by the sides by some well made but still homemade brackets.
At 6'3" I had to extend my arms and have my hands way above my head to reach the points where the brackets held the TV. So not only did the person(s) who did this had to climb but then they found a way to make believe it was normal to take the TV out. Back then we had security agents but not many cameras inside. Most, if not all, cameras were around, outside the building and the security guard (who was an employee of the hospital not from an agency) only had a 14-15'' greenish screened TV.
So very little security footage, many many people coming in and out daily and a small tv from which you barely see any details. That's how it happened.