The Dalby Spook: Gef the Talking Mongoose (Part 2)

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

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Having risen to the status of international newspaper sensation, The Dalby Spook, or Gef the talking mongoose to those that knew him, was now poised to meet some of the world’s most infamous psychical researchers. Unfortunately, Gef was as shy amongst company as he was talkative to the Irvings. Yet still the story of Gef persisted until eventually, his name ended up associated with a debate that took place in the highest office of the land. SOURCES Josiffe, Christopher (2017) Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose. Strange Attractor Press, London, UK. Price, Harry & Lambert, R.S. (1936) The Haunting of Cashen’s Gap. Unknown Press. Fodor, Nandor (1964) Between Two Worlds. Parker Publishing Co. London, UK. Carrington, Hereward & Fodor, Nandor (1953) The Story of the Poltergeist Down the Centuries. Rider, London, UK. The Muswellbrook Chronicle (1932) Strange Doings on Isle of Man. The Muswellbrook Chronicle, Tues, 3 May 1932, p1. Sydney, Australia The Isle of Man Examiner (1932) Dalby Sensation. The Isle of Man Examiner, Fri, February 19, 1932. Isle of Man. Peel City Guardian And Chronicle (1932) The Dorlish Cashen Buggane. Peel City Guardian And Chronicle. Sat, February 20, 1932. Isle of Man. Josiffe, Christopher (2014) British Voodoo: the Black art of Rollo Ahmed. Fortean Times, July 2014. London, UK. Josiffe, Christopher (2014) British Voodoo: the Black art of Rollo Ahmed. Fortean Times, August 2014. London, UK. Harris, Melvin (1982) The Mongoose That Talked. The Unexplained, Vol. 9, Issue 97. Orbis Publishing Ltd. London, UK. Harris, Melvin (1982) Lost For Words. The Unexplained, Vol. 9, Issue 98. Orbis Publishing Ltd. London, UK. Isle of Man Times (1936) Manxland’s 1000 Year Old Custom Once Again Observed. Isle of Man Times, Sat Jul 11, 1936. Isle of Man. Isle of Man Times (1936) Personal. Isle of Man Times, Sat Jul 11, 1936. Isle of Man. Isle of Man Times (1936) Mr Rollo ahmed. Isle of Man Times, Tues Jul 14, 1936. Isle of Man. Daily Herald (1936) BBC Editors Slander Action. Daily Herald, Thurs Nov 5 1936. London, UK. The Times (1936) Law Report, Nov. 4. The Times, Thurs Nov 5 1936. London, UK. The Times (1936) Law Report, Nov. 5. The Times, Fri Nov 6 1936. London, UK. The Times (1936) Law Report, Nov. 6. The Times, Sat Nov 7 1936. London, UK. The Isle of Man Examiner (1947) Talking Mongoose Killed. The Isle of Man Examiner, Fri February 21, 1947. Isle of Man. ------- This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp, check out betterhelp.com/darkhistories to get 10% off your first month. Also sponsored by Factor, America's No.1 Ready to eat meal delivery service. Check out factormeals.com/darkhistories50 for 50% off using code darkhistories50.------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	Having risen to the status of international newspaper sensation,
0:04.6	the Dolby Spook, or Jeff the Talking Mongus to those that knew him,
0:09.2	was now poised to meet some of the world's most famous psychical researchers.
0:14.3	Unfortunately, Jeff was as shy amongst company as he was talkative to the Ervings.
0:20.0	Yet still, the story of Jeff persisted, until eventually his name ended up associated with the debate
0:26.4	that took place in the highest office in the land.
0:29.8	This is Dark Histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:37.0	Hello and welcome back to Dark Histories, season 7, episode 24, part 2 of the story on Jeff the talking mongoose before we start I just want to give a
0:45.9	quick shout out to Sasha and Amato who are hopefully doing a Ben and also to say that
0:51.9	I've received quite a few Christmas campfire stories from everybody.
0:56.7	But this is probably going to be the last or second to last shout out I'm going to give.
1:02.0	So if you are thinking about entering your story for this year's Christmas campfire,
1:06.0	I probably would do it over the next couple of weeks sometime. But anyway, I'll give one more shout out because we've got one more episode left of this season so I will give
1:13.6	a heads up obviously next episode about that but yeah if you're thinking about getting your
1:20.1	submission in for this year's Christmas campfire. I would probably think about doing it
1:24.1	sometime over the next couple of weeks. Anyway, with that said, where are we? We are up to Harry Price's visit. We've seen, we've met Jeff. Jeff has made himself known that he
1:35.8	doesn't want to be called Jack. He much rather be called Jeff. And he's also
1:39.3	let it be known that he is in fact a mongoose. I believe we ended with Dennis's sort of preliminary
1:45.2	investigation for Price to go and check out Jeff and see what it was all about.
1:50.3	Let's crack on to part two and the conclusion of Jeff the Talking Mongus.
1:57.0	After Harold Dennis's inconclusive visits to Dalish Kachen,
2:01.0	Harry Price arrived on the Isle of Man on the evening of Tuesday, July the 30th,
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