I have been fascinated by this story since reading about it as a young child. Information on the book, with further information about Gef, can be found on Christopher Josiffe’s Gef website: https://gefmongoose.co.uk/ david with the numbers. Christopher Josiffe presents every scrap of relevant evidence that he can find, and then in an even and unbiased way serves it to the reader to judge for themselves just what on earth was going on! A blog by pauldaleroberts Sign in to follow this . He appeared in numerous tabloid newspaper stories , … To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Noté /5. Gef the Talking Mongoose (Book Review) Join the Unexplained Mysteries community today! Gef (pronounced 'Geoff'), a mysterious hybrid of poltergeist, fairy, ghost and "extra clever mongoose", that became an intimate part of the Irving family in their remote farmstead at Cashen's Gap, on the bleak south-western slopes of the Isle of Man, remains an enigma. Highly recommend! May 1, 2020. In fact, it went on for decades. Gef's humour, Gef's wisecracks, Gef's tantrums, Gef's affections — all have the quality of raw adolescence." Gef! On the Isle of Man in the early 1930’s something really weird happened. Intrigued by references to the ‘talking mongoose’ case, he began to examine the relevant archival material at the University of London and the Society for Psychical Research’s Gef files, held at Cambridge […] Buy a discounted Paperback of Gef! A true Fortean mystery. : The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose by Christopher Josiffe. Gef (pronounced 'Geoff'), a mysterious hybrid of poltergeist, fairy, ghost and "extra clever mongoose", that became an intimate part of the Irving family in their remote farmstead at Cashen's Gap, on the bleak south-western slopes of the Isle of Man, remains an enigma. Gef (pronounced 'Geoff'), a mysterious hybrid of poltergeist, fairy, ghost and "extra clever mongoose", that became an intimate part of the Irving family in their remote farmstead at Cashen's Gap, on the bleak south-western slopes of the Isle of Man, remains an enigma. A wonderful handbook which finally makes the talking mongoose case more accessible... and provides so much more detail. The universe gets stranger all the time. Christopher Josiffe is a regular contributor to Fortean Times and has also been published in Faunus, Abraxas, and The Pomegranate. The Heart of Infinity: Exploring the Universe (The Teaching of the Heart Book 4), Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland, Brotherhood: Saving Humanity and the Earth: 9 (The Teaching of the Heart). … In the end, it proved to be as much about the Mongoose as the people who experienced him. Henry Zebrowski. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. CHAPTER 14: Tulpas, Telepathy, and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lad? Retrouvez GEF! Gef, also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, is the name given to a talking mongoose which was claimed to inhabit a farmhouse owned by the Irving family known as Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. Followers 0. Published by Strange Attractor Press, the book is fully illustrated, featuring many photographs never before seen, and a full colour cover. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2017. In addition to Chris’s presentation and readings from his Gef! Side Stories: Plague Doctor. BOOK NOW. Yet today there is still no definitive answer. with all the info you could want...except of course a good pic of Gef. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. MISC, GHOSTS. A ghost mongoose. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Buy Gef The Talking Mongoose: The "Eighth Wonder of the World" by Swartz, Tim R, Beckley, Timothy Green, Inviticus, Hercules, Roberts, Paul Dale, Price, Harry, Lambert, R.S. Followers 0. entries 277; comments 57; views 8,907; Gef the Talking Mongoose (Book Review) Sign in to follow this . 89 likes. Event Navigation. 0 new cases. The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose is now available for purchase in either hardback or paperback formats. Gef also was also at the centre of a highly-publicized slander case involving the BBC, and questions about him were asked in the House of Commons. The Sun of Love: Merging Two Halves into a Single Whole: 10 (The Teaching of the He... Ramble Book: Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture, Cultivating Intuitive & Spiritual Gifts: You Are Intuitively Gifted - Discover How, The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, Decoding Karma: Transform everyday life with ancient wisdom. He was able to move objects through the air although he was nowhere near them. He spoke the most to her, and although Jim and Margaret did on occasion glimpse Gef, Voirrey was the only one who was allowed to look at him for any extended amount of time. Winner of the Katharine Briggs Folklore Society Book of the Year award for 2017: “A thoroughly clever, enjoyable account … Avoiding the temptation ultimately to determine whether or not Gef ‘really’ existed, Josiffe deftly and engagingly elucidates the construction of a piece of distinctively modern, mediated folklore.”, “Christopher Josiffe’s meticulous telling is both brilliantly silly and irreducibly mysterious”                  — Bee Wilson in the London Review of Books, “Thoroughly researched…vigorously written and often charming” — Kevin Jackson in the TLS. Henry Zebrowski. The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose, CHAPTER 4: “Very Shrewd and Not Easily Hoodwinked”: the Testimony of Captain Dennis, CHAPTER 9: Nandor Fodor’s Week on a Bare Mountain, CHAPTER 10: “Charlie, Charlie, chuck chuck chuck”. written by gef. He has given lectures at the Ghost Club, the Society for Psychical Research, Senate House Library and the Fortean Times Unconvention. (Voirrey was not the Irvings’ only child; however, the two older children, Elsie and Gilbert, were already grown and living on their … We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. As a library cataloguer, he came across the archive and library of ‘psychic detective’ Harry Price seven years ago. Photos, however, suggested that whatever had been killed by Graham was not a mongoose. I have hands and I have feet, and if you saw me you'd faint, you'd be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt!" Gef was born in New Delhi, India and was a mongoose. Further reading for Gef, the talking mongoose. The family, James, Margaret and their 13-year-old daughter Voirrey, lived in a farmhouse at Cashen’s Gap, by Dalby on the Isle of Man. It's free and setting up an account only takes a moment. We read a book called Susannah and the Purple Mongoose. The two men briefly visited the Isle of Man in the summer of 1935, where they met the Irving family. It does not restrict Gef to being identified as a mongoose. The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose. The hardback is limited to 200 copies, which are numbered and signed. Something went wrong. Gef! Gef (pronounced 'Geoff'), a mysterious hybrid of poltergeist, fairy, ghost and "extra clever mongoose", that became an intimate part of the Irving family in their remote farmstead at Cashen's Gap, on the bleak south-western slopes of the Isle of Man, remains an enigma. Other accounts speculate that the precocious Voirrey told school chums of her chatty little pal, no doubt inspired by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a short st… Booktopia has Gef!, The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose by Christopher Josiffe. Sex Rules! howard, ashy, dr al. But then again, maybe Gef … Christopher Josiffe, who has access at the Senate House to the Harry Price archive, has re-analysed the original material, much of it unseen for eighty years, to produce a definitive account which he intends to be impartial. It was inevitable that a book would be written on the strange story. It was not a successful farm; James “Jim” Irving, an educated man, had previously been a traveling salesman, and although the farm was his retirement project, it was proving insufficient to support his wife, Margaret, and their daughter, Voirrey. ‘Gef’ In September 1931, the Irving family was troubled by persistent scratching and rustling sounds behind the walls of their farmhouse. He could read minds. Read more. If the whole thing was a hoax, it was a very odd one - but then the Voirreys (Gef's human hosts) were a very odd family, as Mr Josiffe makes clear. hospital ready to react to any new c-19 cases . — Sir Gef the Mongoose (@gefbot) January 18, 2018. The strange saga of Gef the talking mongoose began in Autumn 1931 in an isolated hilltop farmstead on the Isle of Man known as Doarlish Cashen (Manx for 'Cashen's Gap'). In September 1931, the Irving family, consisting of James, Margaret and a 13-year-old daughter named Voirrey, claimed they heard persistent scratching, rustling, and vocal noises behind their farmhouse’s wooden wall panels that variously resembled a ferret, a dog or a baby. : The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose, out now from Strange Attractor, is Christopher Josiffe’s sweeping investigation into Gef (pronounced like “Jeff”). On the Isle of Man in the early 1930’s something really weird happened. 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The Book of Secret Wisdom: The Prophetic Record of Human Destiny and Evolution (Sac... Empath: A Complete Guide for Developing Your Gift and Finding Your Sense of Self. An exhaustive investigation of the case of Gef, a “talking mongoose” or “man-weasel,” who appeared to a family living on the Isle of Man. And now the reader may make up their own mind. Folie à plusieurs is a recognised  psychiatric condition wherein more than two people, usually a single family, come to share in the same delusion. Gef the mongoose. May 1, 2020. Side Stories: Space Poltergeist @LPONTHELEFT #HAILYOURSELF. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Gef, the talking mongoose of Cashen's Gap, the Isle of Mans most fêted and vocal herpestidae! Side Stories: Plague Doctor. Price speaks of this in a book: "The mongoose problem obsessed our minds and made sleep difficult. Gef's story began to catch on in the local press, causing quite a commotion with reporters. In fact, it went on for decades. Whether Gef was a figment of the Irving family's imagination, a poltergeist that had possessed a mongoose or a real talking animal, the scary mystery captured the nation In autumn 1931 the Irvings, then living in a bleak and austere farmhouse half way up a mountain in the rural and isolated south west of the Isle of Man began to report an extraordinary tale. Was Gef simply a crude hoax? When you pick it up, don’t think that the book is ONLY talking about Gef the Talking Mongoose, there is a whole encyclopedia of paranormal information in this book. - Sign In or Create Account - The Demon Warrior Speaks. I was introduced to the subject via The Folklore Podcast, and am now utterly fascinated by Gef the Talking Mongoose, and the strange goings-on on the Isle of Man in the 1930s. A Video Séance (1999) with Gef and the Irving family as its subject matter. Don’t’ let that put you off. Please try your request again later. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Although now a largely forgotten tale, the sensational Gef (pronounced Jeff), the ‘talking mongoose’ of the Isle of Man, or as he is sometimes known, the Dalby Spook, caused an international media stir during the 1930s.. Josiffe has done a great job. Unlike a number of other historical mysteries (Borley, Montpelier Rd, Spring-heeled Jack), the case of Gef has substance, and presents us with a genuine and baffling case, still to be explained in any sort of satisfactory way. Back To Top. A brilliant book, and one which the publishers took some time to get on the market, but well worth the wait! In July 1935 the editor of The Listener, Richard S. Lambert (known as "Rex"), and his friend, paranormal investigator Harry Price, went to the Isle of Man to investigate the case and produced the book The Haunting of Cashen's Gap (1936). “I am the fifth dimension! (ISBN: 9781606119877) from Amazon's Book Store. Over the course of the 1930s, Gef The Talking Mongoose became something of a media phenomenon. Henry Zebrowski. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. There are bits that actually made me, for the first time, question my previous perception of this insanely fascinating legend, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2019. According to the young girl, the mongoose was ‘the size of a small rat with yellowish fur and a large bushy tail.’ The family told the press that Gef was a ghost in animal form and was an ‘extra, extra clever mongoose.’ Well-written and expertly researched. Wonderfully weird & entertaining read. He once said, "I am a freak. Timothy Green Beckley kick starts this book with his talk about Gef and the many, many witnesses to this phenomenal event on the Isle of Man. I love this book. I will go into details in a minute. Please try again. Gef variously claimed to be "an extra extra clever mongoose", an "earthbound spirit" and "a ghost in the form of a weasel". May 1, 2020. Gef is a mongoose. The Irving Family of Cashen’s Gap reported hearing sounds of scratching and movement behind their walls. The story was given extensive coverage by tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. Price suspected the hair b… Number 16 in the celebrated Pan Book of Horror Stories (“over four million copies sold … fourteen stories ... term by which he was (and still is) known on the Island – the ‘Dalby Spook.’ His more well-known moniker, ‘Gef the Talking Mongoose,’ was coined later by a mainland journalist. The animal said it was a mongoose called Gef, who had been born in New Delhi, India, was then hunted, before escaping to the Isle of Man. This is the definitive book on the subject of Gef.All the relevant players have been researched and the book is illustrted with photo's,drawings and original newspapr clippings to tell the amazing story.various theories are looked at with an open mind.Anyone wishing to research the subject needs this book on their shelf. thanks to all at dhsc for their work. Unable to add item to List. Or a case of collective insanity, either within the family or amongst the local population as a whole? Great book, but i absolutely hate the cover 'art', Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 May 2017. There's some indication the tale originated when 13 year-old Voirrey Irving, an accomplished rabbit hunter, began saying that dead rabbits she brought home were killed by her friend, a sentient mongoose, and before long she had her parents believing the tale and spreading it to their neighbors. “I am the fifth dimension! W. D. 1.0 out of 5 stars An insult to Price and Lambert. 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