*TO HELL AND BACK* In 1977 a pub landlord in Morecambe kept experiencing vivid recurrent dreams about being a highwayman. In the dreams he used to look in a mirror and see himself sporting a three-cornered hat and a black velvet mask of the Lone Ranger type. He always made a point of recounting these dreams to his wife and she eventually became so exasperated by them, that she hired a hypnotist to visit the pub to look into her husband’s strange dreams. Having put the landlord into into a trance, the hypnotist then asked him about the identity of the man in the mask. He revealed that his name was Edward Higgins and began talking in a quaint, rural accent. He claimed that he was a gentleman by day who visited church regularly every Sunday but after dark, he confessed that he was a callous highwayman, holding up stagecoaches all over Cheshire. After three hours of being in a trance, the landlord started screaming that he had been caught. He later turned a deathly pale and said that his captors were going to hang him. At this point, the landlord’s wife became seriously concerned for her husband’s well-being and urged the hypnotist to wake him up but he simply reassured her that he would be fine. Suddenly the pub landlord let out a blood-curdling scream and then fell completely silent. The hypnotist gently asked him where he was and he replied, “I’m in hell, I can see so many faces around me, all bad people”. Then the hypnotist woke him up. It has since been established that their really was a highwayman names Edward Higgins who operated near Knutsford in 1752. By all accounts he was a Jekyll and Hyde character; a gentleman by day and a highwayman by night, until he was finally lynched for his misdeeds
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