This Family Found a Talking Creature Living in Their Walls

hey 42 here the small british crown dependency of the isle of man is famous for many things the monks cat with no tail tt motorbike races and smoked herring kippers but in the early 1930s the island briefly became famous for a small undead mammal called jeff and to this day residents still scream in terror if you mention the name of jeff the talking mongoose hey well okay maybe they don't scream they probably just roll their eyes tut and say get out of my kipper shop nonetheless jeff the mongoose captured the imagination of the tabloid press he ended up in law books tarnished reputations got people fired inspired lawsuits wasted the time of several esteemed academics and was instrumental in the bbc overhauling their staff policies but to find out who jeff the mongoose was and why he was on dares we need to go back to september of 1931 when the irving family started hearing scratching barking growling spitting and blowing noises coming from the rafters and skirting boards of their cosy 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took the only logical step he could to deal with the sounds he tried to poison it trap it and shoot it with a rifle whatever it was believe it or not none of these methods worked so james attempted a variety of animal and bird noises to see if the voice would respond amazingly it not only responded but mimicked each call perfectly vora tried the same thing with songs and nursery rhymes and their mysterious guest happily performed them all for her in a voice which was apparently two octaves above the normal human range one night however jeff decided to introduce himself properly and from that point on the irvings couldn't shut the skinny little bastard up he revealed he was a ghost who'd taken the form of a mongoose then the supernatural mongoose declared he was 80 years old and was born in new delhi in 1852 that's right the furry booger had somehow travelled 7000 miles as the mongoose flies to live inside the walls of a remote farmhouse on the isle of man when the family quizzed him on how he was able to talk he said he was an extra extra clever mongoose so he obviously wasn't the most modest of carnivorous mammals mind you he didn't seem to be too confident about his looks either i am a freak he told the irvings if you saw me you'd faint you'd be petrified mummified turned into stone or a pillar of salt by this point james was feeling a little guilty about trying to shoot and poison jeff after all he seemed like a fairly decent critter so he apologized and from that point on they were best of friends jeff guarded the house would chase away mice extinguished a stove if the irvings forgot wake them up if they overslept and deliver rabbits as gifts for the family which jeff proudly pointed out that he'd strangled to death which is nice i suppose i usually prefer my stewie ingredients not strangled to death but hey it's the ford that counts as for the irvings they were happy to repay the favor they filled a saucer with bacon sausages bananas and chocolate which are obviously a mongoose's favorite food groups and suspended it from the ceiling so jeff could help himself when no one was watching which is important when you're a self-conscious supernatural talking mongoose they even took him for walks to the market during which jeff would talk incessantly about any subject that took his fancy although he always conveniently made sure he was completely obscured by a hedge just in case anyone caught a peek of his hideous features now by this point i'd completely understand if you're thinking 42 is really out of ideas he's just started making up bollocks about a talking mongoose but i'd like to clarify i'm not making any of this up the irvings definitely were but i'm not it was only a matter of time until a swarm of tabloid journalists were heading to the isle of man hoping for the merest glimpse of the creature or at best a full warts and all interview featuring some of jeff's kiss and tell secrets and maybe even a full colour centerfold in skimpy mongoose laundry mind you a newspaper interview with jeff would have to carry a parental advisory warning he was rather prone to mood swings you see and could go from charming sophisticated mongoose about town to the kind of mongoose who'd stick a broken glass in your face whilst looking at his girlfriend and by irving family accounts jeff's conversation were littered with more f and c words than your average tarantino film in fact his comments to voira was so unpleasant that james and margaret had to move her bed into their room until jeff learned to be a little less filthy as ridiculous as all of this sounds some residents of the isle of man really did believe there was something strange in the neighborhood so they decided to call harry price paranormal investigator mainly because none of the real ghostbusters would be born for another few decades mind you price was very much the peter venkman of his day having worked on a number of high-profile cases such as his celebrated investigation into the haunted tourist kiosk at the top of the eiffel tower things kept going missing you see souvenirs keepsakes cheap jewelry so it was clearly the work of a malevolent spirit or a shoplifter or perhaps a malevolent spirit who enjoyed a bit of shoplifting long story short price was well experienced at investigating so-called supernatural occurrences that were most likely complete and utter bollocks before price arrived on the scene he asked james irving for more information about jeff so he sent him his diary still available today in the university of london archives it goes into detail about how jeff had a great facility for foreign languages he suddenly started speaking russian one day wasn't too shabby at arabic understood sign language could recite four lines of a welsh poem and sing two verses of a spanish song he also seemed to be the james bond of the mongoose world when not annoying the piss out of the irvings with songs from around the world in falsetto he ventured outside to spy on other farms collect gossip from the locals and reported his findings back to the family the irvings thought this was terrific of course so imagine their joy when jeff suddenly developed psychic powers and could tell them what was going on 10 miles away without leaving the comfort of his skirting board now these stories were obviously completely and utterly ludicrous so harry price decided not to waste his time any further and immediately booked himself a ticket to the isle of man he informed the irvings that he was on the way but barely had time to dust off his proton pack before a letter arrived saying that jeff by a massive coincidence had suddenly gone missing honestly you just couldn't make it up well actually you could because they did nonetheless a month later in july 1935 price decided to pack his pke meter regardless and headed to the isle of man to see this mongoose in the ghostly flesh for himself he asked his friend richard lambert an editor at the bbc to come along as a witness you can hardly blame him if there was so much as a fleeting chance i was going to see an apparition of a talking mongoose i'd want a bloody witness too unfortunately when they arrived jeff still wasn't in a talking mood so james gave them a tour of the house instead he showed them cracks and peepholes in the walls from where jeff would mutter rude and embarrassing things and here is where the story begins to unravel you see for a few years newspapers and a few locals had speculated the entire phenomenon was down to voira and she was able to produce jeff's voice due to a hidden natural talent for ventriloquism and sure enough price's big smoking gun in the case was realizing the space between the exterior stone walls and interior wooden walls acted as a huge microphone and if he spoke into the cracks between the paneling his voice would reverberate through the walls and be carried to every room in the house needless to say price and lambert were both pretty unimpressed with the evidence and the fact jeff suddenly returned to cashion's gap on the night they left did nothing to appease their suspicions apparently jeff told james that he disliked price because he had his doubting cap on but even so the magnanimous mongoose decided to make plasticine impressions of his own paws and teeth to prove his existence once and for all and price in turn did what any of us would do with evidence of a non-existent mongoose ghost he sent it to one of britain's most distinguished zoologists reginald's pocket at the natural history museum we can only imagine what pukkik fought when these items showed up probably whatever the 1930s equivalent of wtf was he spent very little time determining the teeth marks and paw prints had most likely come from a dog specifically a sheep dog and even more specifically a sheepdog called mona who just so happened to be owned by the irvings i'm sure it was just a coincidence jeff wasn't going to take such flagrant denial lying down or whatever mongooses do he told the irvings he'd plucked a hair from his own back and placed it inside an ornament upon the mantelpiece sure enough there it was and james forward it to sir julian huxley an esteemed evolutionary biologist first director of unesco and eugenicist huxley had more important things to do than examining the supposed hair of an undead mongoose like you know deciding who was too stupid to pass on their genes yeah and so he forwarded the sample to naturalist francis duncan smith after a quick comparison with hairs of various species duncan declared with confidence that the specimen could not have come from a mongoose and was most likely from a long-haired dog that's right mona again the irving's suspect sheepdog mona spent so much time pretending to be a mongoose she probably forgot she was a dog in 1936 price and lambert published a full account of their findings in the book the haunting of kashin's gap although they never explicitly denied the existence of jeff the evidence they laid out was pretty damning and ultimately left the whole voira being a two-bit ventriloquist mumbling expletives at herself into the walls theory the most likely after james died in 1945 margaret and voiro were forced to sell the farm at a very low price because for some reason people weren't keen to buy a farmhouse haunted by a foul-mouthed mongoose i don't know about you but i think i'd be the first through the doors of the estate agents for that one it was eventually purchased by actor leslie graham who later sold a story to the press claiming he'd shot and killed poor jeff he even provided a body but voira shot his story down in flames saying that it was most certainly not jeff being both the wrong size and colour to be their famous family phantasm which must have infuriated graham as it's thought he only claimed to be jeff's murderer in order to end all the urban legends associated with his new home vara however was having none of it during an interview in later life she still maintained jeff was real and was dogmatic in her belief all the way up to her death in 2005. so was jeff simply a product of wara's imagination well yes probably but can we blame her after all she was living in a really isolated farmhouse on a really isolated island with very very little contact with the outside world 70 years before the invention of netflix zoom and disney plus in the end it was probably just a case of her making her own entertainment but what really happened at cashion's gap in the 1930s i guess we'll never truly know thanks for watching thanks again to raid shadow legends for sponsoring this video don't forget to check it out using the link below

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Published: Wed Mar 10 2021