Unsolved Mysteries Vol,1

Gef the mongoose

In September, 1931 on the Isle of Man, the Irving familiy, consisting of Margaret and her husband, James as well as there 13 - year old daughter Voirry began hearing scratching noises in the walls of their farmhouse. The noises varied between rodentine to dog - like to baby-like. The noises were reportable coming from a
mongoose who lived in the walls. According to Voirry, the mongoose could talk and told her that he was the size of a small rat, yellowish with a bushy tail and had come from New Delhi, India. The Irving ' s claimed that Gef said he was "an extra extra clever mongoose." and that he was "an earthbound spirit" and that he was "a freak...if you saw me you'd faint, you'd be petrified, mummified, turned into a pillar of salt!"

The Irving ' s claimed he would alert them of strangers aproching the house. They said he would put out fires at night and wake them if they overslept. They said he would hunt mice and even follow them to the store, chattering along from inside bushes.
They said he would sometimes sing profane and vulgar songs. Reportably, they fed him biscuits, chocolate and bananas, witch he would eat at night.

The story would become popular and journalists and visators would swarm the house. Many claimed to have heard Gef and two pepole have said they saw him. Yet, phsyical evidence was still lacking. Soon, James would die and the remaining Irving sold the house to Leslie Graham. Graham would claim to have killed Gef but Voirry rebuked him, saying that Gef was still alive. Voirry would maintain that she didn't make Gef up until her death in 2005. We never may know now if Gef was real or not.

On another note a slander case was drawn up after Sir Cecil Levita suggested that Richard Lambert was unfit for work because he "belived in the evil eye and a talking mongoose."