:PROFILE [image:https://cdn.slatesource.com/a/7/f/a7f91d1b-39e4-4366-9182-cbf9491b00b9.webp]
Gef the Talking Mongoose
Cashen Gap, Isle of Man, 1931
He lived in the walls. He spoke in a thin high voice. He called himself a ghost in the form of a wea

:INFO
The voice in the wall
In September 1931, James Irving, his wife Margaret and their thirteen year old daughter Voirrey reported that something had moved into their isolated farmhouse. It made animal sounds at first, then began repeating words, then began speaking in full sentences. It called itself Gef. It said it was born in New Delhi in 1852. Investigators including Harry Price of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research visited the house. None could agree on what they had encountered.


:STATS

:QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Gef]
I am the fifth dimension. I am the eighth wonder of the world.


:NOTE.half
Voirrey Irving maintained until her death in 2005 that Gef was real and not something she invented. She refused to be celebrated for it.
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:NOTE.half
The most cautious investigators concluded the case was a family hoax most likely sustained by Voirrey. No recording of Gef was ever independently verified.


:POLL
What spoke from the walls of Cashen Gap?
A mongoose of an unknown type
A teenager with extraordinary ventriloquism
Something genuinely unexplained
Keep it open

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