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Hello, hello, welcome to a special extra long Halloween countdown case update.

It's just 10 days to Halloween now.

And if you have been feeling a chill recently, it might not just be the weather.

We've had some

deeply creepy, confounding cases in our countdown, and you have been coming up with some cracking

questions and theories on them. So let's dive back to Case 15, the Kitchen Bitch. Now, Julian and his

American wife's family joked about a ghost in the kitchen of their 17th century house in Surrey

until a relative in Los Angeles got a message seemingly from a spirit telling them to stop calling her the kitchen bitch.

How could she possibly have known the private name they used?

Julian still can't explain it and lots of you felt in great sympathy with the

ghost, if indeed that's what she was. Who wouldn't be offended by being called a bitch? Well, we have a

really interesting theory on this from Kate in Wales, who says, what I find extremely interesting

is that references to the use of the word bitch in the 17th century seem to suggest that it was used

as an insult against men. Apparently it wasn't used as an insult aimed at women until the early

1900s. So if the ghost in the kitchen is from the 1600s and is taking offence, could it be

the spirit of a man? Wow, this is quite a curveball theory here. Really interesting. Liz was also really

struck by Julian's story because she had had a similar experience. She says, a lady who lived near me

in West Yorkshire sadly died quite a while ago. She lived in a big house and the new residence

who moved in after she died bought a bronze statue of a pelican for their garden. A good friend

of the deceased lady was recently on holiday in Australia visiting her daughter. For her birthday,

her daughter booked a session with a psychic. The psychic said, I'm getting a message from a lady

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