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[[File:Cock lane ghost.png|250px|thumb|alt=A monochrome illustration of a narrow street, viewed from a corner, or intersection. A large three-storey building is visible on the right of the image. The ground floor has three windows, the first and second floors have two windows each. The roof appears to contain a row of windows, for a loft space. The word "KING" is written between the first and second floors, and a sign, "Gas meter maker" hangs above the ground floor windows.|A 19th-century illustration of Cock Lane.  The haunting took place in the three-storey building on the right.]]
The '''Cock Lane ghost''' was a purported [[haunting]] that attracted mass public attention in 18th-century England.  In 1762762.  The location was an apartment in [[Cock Lane]], a short road adjacent to London's [[Smithfield, London|Smithfield]] market and a few minutes' walk from [[St Paul's Cathedral]], was the site of a reported haunting.  The event centred around three people: William Kent, a [[usury|usurer]] from Norfolk, Richard Parsons, a parish clerk, and Parsons' daughter Elizabeth.

Following the death during childbirth of Kent's wife, Elizabeth Lynes, he became romantically involved with her sister, Fanny.  [[Canon law]] prevented the couple from marrying, but they nevertheless moved to London and lodged at the property in Cock Lane, then owned by Parsons.  Several accounts of strange knocking sounds and ghostly apparitions were repo(contracted; show full)[[Category:18th century in London]]
[[Category:18th-century hoaxes]]

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[[fr:Fantôme de Cock Lane]]
[[ja:コック・レーンの幽霊]]
[[ru:Коклэйнский призрак]]