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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, "(contracted; show full)agine I thus saw and heard, and therefore I should not believe that an external communication had been made to me.  But if a form should appear, and a voice tell me that a particular man had died at a particular place, and a particular hour, a fact which I had no apprehension of, nor any means of knowing, and this fact, with all its circumstances, should afterwards be unquestionably proved, I should, in that case, be persuaded that I had supernatural intelligence imparted to me.<ref>{{Harvnb|Boswell|
Malone|1791|p=219}}</ref>}}

Johnson's role in revealing the nature of the hoax was not enough to keep the satirist [[Charles Churchill (satirist)|Charles Churchill]] from mocking his apparent credulity in his 1762 work ''The Ghost''.<ref>{{Citation | last = Sambrook | first = James | title = Churchill, Charles (1732–1764) | format = {{ODNBsub}} | work = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2006 | edition = online | url = http:/(contracted; show full)[[Category:English ghosts]]
[[Category:Hoaxes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:History of the City of London]]
[[Category:Crime in London]]
[[Category:18th century in London]]
[[Category:18th-century hoaxes]]

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