| Academy Award-winning actor Jack Lemmon had | | | | Fifty years later, Lemmon encountered another |
| two strange encounters with the paranormal. Lemmon | | | | paranormal experience whilst appearing on stage in |
| first sprang to international stardom in the 1959 movie | | | | London at the Haymarket Theatre, where he was |
| Some Like It Hot, which also starred Marilyn Munroe | | | | starring in the anti-war play, Veteran's Day, with |
| and Tony Curtis. In that same year, whilst working on | | | | Michael Gambon. In July 1989, he claimed to have seen |
| the occult thriller Bell, Book and Candle, he had an | | | | a spirit three times in less than a week! Not surprisingly, |
| experience of ESP. | | | | these three ghostly visitations shook Lemmon up quite |
| Lemmon was just 15 at the time of this experience, | | | | considerably. He said that he'd been alone in his |
| and he was attending the Andover Press School in | | | | dressing room, with all the windows shut, and that the |
| Massachusetts. He was playing tennis with his | | | | door had mysteriously opened and slammed, even |
| classmate Jerry. Right at the moment when he was | | | | though there was nobody outside. His initial reaction |
| about to hit a serve, Jerry suddenly doubled up as if he | | | | was that maybe somebody was playing a practical |
| was in pain and fell to the ground. Lemmon | | | | joke on him, but then he doubted the wisdom of |
| immediately ran round the court and asked him what | | | | anybody venturing to play such a prank on a guy of |
| was wrong. Jerry didn't know. But what he did know, | | | | his age. With this in mind, Lemmon came to the |
| however, was that something terrible had happened. | | | | conclusion that it was the work of a ghost. Lemmon |
| Lemmon said that the two boys finished their game, | | | | expressed how terrified he felt at the thought of some |
| but his friend's mind was clearly on something else. | | | | supernatural entity watching him. |
| When they returned to their room, their minds | | | | The theatre staff had little doubt that the ghost that |
| cogitated deeply on what had happened. Jerry | | | | Lemmon had encountered was that of a former stage |
| described the sudden pain as an almost physical one, | | | | manager, George Buxton, who had died on the |
| an overwhelming realization so intense that he could | | | | premises some fifty years earlier. The ghost had been |
| virtually feel it, that something terrible had happened to | | | | reported on a number of occasions over the last |
| somebody he loved. Just an hour later he was | | | | century. Buxton had a reputation for always making |
| summoned to the principal's office. When he got there, | | | | sure that the theatre was clean and tidy, and he |
| he was told some very bad news: his mother had died | | | | always kept the doors shut. |
| - almost exactly one hour earlier. | | | | |