Lord Thomas Lyttelton's Psychic World
Prophetic Dream, Crisis Apparition and Possible Ghostly Experience
May 29, 2009
Lord Thomas Lyttelton was the second Baron Lyttelton of Frankley, a Member of Parliament, Chief Justice of Ireland and a good friend of the Prince of Wales.
He was also a rake, drug addict and seducer of women. His nicknames were "the Wicked Lord" and "Bad Lord Lyttelton.” He married Aphia Witts and left her for a barmaid.
Lyttelton and 50 Berkeley Square
This was deemed the most haunted house in London. There was an alleged haunted room that a “thing” lived in. Those who slept there died of fright. Lyttelton was rumored to have spent the night in that room, armed with two shot guns.
During the night, something leapt at him out of the darkness and he shot it. The only evidence was buckshot holes in the floor.
Lyttelton and Prophetic Dream
He returned to his London home in 1779. His health was poor and he had fits in the past several months. Several friends visited him, including one who recorded the dream and Lyttelton’s death.
Three days before he died, Lyttelton had a dream of a flying bird and a woman in white who told him he would die in three days. On the day of his predicted death, the same friends were guests at breakfast. He remarked that if he survived the day, he would have “jockeyed” over the ghost in his dream.
The group went to Pit Place, Lyttelton’s Epsom mansion, where he had one of his fits, but quickly recovered. After he retired to bed, his manservant was going to give him a potion of mint-water and rhubarb. Lyttelton thought he was stirring it with a toothpick and ordered him to get a spoon. When the servant returned, the lord had another fit and died.
Lyttelton, a Crisis Apparition
He and his group of friends were going to visit another friend, Miles Peter Andrews, in Dartmoor. At the last moment, Lyttelton declined to go, but gave no excuse. Andrews went to bed early because he didn’t feel well. Shortly after he got into his bed, the curtains of his four poster bed were suddenly opened by Lyttelton who was wearing one of his distinctive night shirts. Andrews assumed he decided to visit and was playing a trick. He said he was glad Lyttelton was up to joking and he would throw something at him. Lyttelton looked at him sadly and said it was over. Andrew tossed a slipper at him, but his friend went into the dressing room.
Andrews searched both rooms before ringing for his servants. He asked them if they had seen Lyttelton. They assured him that hadn’t. Andrews told them to tell his friend there was no room for him in the house, but he could find one at one of the inns in Dartford.
When Andrews was told about Lyttelton’s death the night before, he was so shocked that he fainted.
Psychic World of Lord Lyttelton
The 50 Berkeley Square experience is the equivalent of a modern day urban legend. The house had a reputation of being haunted and rumors were rife; however this happened in the 1800s, not during Lyttelton’s lifetime.
Prophetic death dreams aren’t rare. Birds are symbols of the soul and spirit. The woman in white is a messenger. Abraham Lincoln’s precognitive dream is, most likely, the most well known.
Crisis apparitions of the dead are not uncommon. They usually appear at the moment of death and the specter is dressed in clothing worn at the time they died.
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Source:
- The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, (Facts on File, Inc., 1992).
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