Anybody heard this true story?

PS. Sorry, Elizabeth was Queen by then. I'm not concentrating this morning.

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Whingey

Alice in wonderland published in 1865 shows her with a headband. Material would not be elastic but it was called an Alice band. In reply to another poster it was a library book and I think the station was 📻 Nottingham but can't check online

In the original illustrations of Alice in Alice in Wonderland she is not wearing a headband. She is wearing one in Alice Through the Looking Glass.

I can remember making myself Alice bands from material left from when my mother made my summer dresses.
They were made from a folded strip of fabric with some elastic to join the two ends.

Allira

I can remember making myself Alice bands from material left from when my mother made my summer dresses.
They were made from a folded strip of fabric with some elastic to join the two ends.

I was too much of a tomboy to ever wear an Alice band but I remember school uniform rules stating they had to be black - fabric or plastic.

School rules- hair could not be left loose, it either had to be short or tied back in a pony tail or plaits.
If not, it got tied up with a piece of string by an irate teacher who would pull you to the front of the class by your hair.
I cannot imagine any 16 year old allowing a teacher to do that now! And quite right too.

Good story but just that - a story. Never heard of ghost lice 🤔

I've never heard of it before, and don't believe it.

However, some of the experiences recalled on the programme "Uncanny" do sound as if they were genuine experiences, though possibly misinterpreted.

Where on earth did this come from and how was it presented so that (allegedly) people regard it as a factual anecdote rather than a not-very-convincing story concocted for "Spooky Goings-On Weekly" magazine?
Provenance?
Evidence?
Verifiable facts from reliable witnesses?
Point of posting it on GN now rather than at Hallowe'en?

Does anyone know the title of the story? I’d like to find it!

Whingey

Alice in wonderland published in 1865 shows her with a headband. Material would not be elastic but it was called an Alice band. In reply to another poster it was a library book and I think the station was 📻 Nottingham but can't check online

In the original drawings that Lewis Carroll did for Alice and the published illustrations by Sir John Tenniel Alice has long hair worn loose and brushed back from her face but no head band.

What you see in some of the pictures is a length of ribbon tied round her head with a bow visible in some pictures but not in others.

I've no knowledge of this story but I have heard perfectly rational people talking about time slips and this does sound like the sort of thing they describe except she was there for a long time if she had a bath and change of clothes!

I have also heard very credible accounts of apparent time slips, and I do believe in life after death, a spirit world. However someone from the spirit world bringing with them physical items from their time on earth which remain after they disappear again (the headband) is something I find very hard to believe. Nevertheless, there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio …

Ghost lice 😨

True story my Aunt Petunia!

🤣

Me too! 🤣

Allira

School rules- hair could not be left loose, it either had to be short or tied back in a pony tail or plaits.
If not, it got tied up with a piece of string by an irate teacher who would pull you to the front of the class by your hair.
I cannot imagine any 16 year old allowing a teacher to do that now! And quite right too.

At our school "Hair that touches the collar must be tied back".

They used to give you big brown elastic bands and you had to pull your hair back into them, even a short bob or straggly bits at the back. Removing the elastic band was quite painful and quite a bit of hair was pulled out in the process. Those were the days!!!!

Baloney.

Indigo8

Allira

School rules- hair could not be left loose, it either had to be short or tied back in a pony tail or plaits.
If not, it got tied up with a piece of string by an irate teacher who would pull you to the front of the class by your hair.
I cannot imagine any 16 year old allowing a teacher to do that now! And quite right too.

At our school "Hair that touches the collar must be tied back".

They used to give you big brown elastic bands and you had to pull your hair back into them, even a short bob or straggly bits at the back. Removing the elastic band was quite painful and quite a bit of hair was pulled out in the process. Those were the days!!!!

Probably sensible. I do wonder if they ask children to tie their hair back in science or home economics lessons.

Leaning over a Bunsen burner with hair dangling would be a recipe for disaster!

Allira, my eyebrows were singed by a Bunsen burner in a Chemistry lesson, and they weren't that straggley!

😯 hope you were ok!

Elizabeth was not a ghost. Ghosts do not have baths and change clothes

What was she then, as you said it was a true story?

A time traveller.