1 No one has ever decided what it was. But Another of Jeff's pastimes was listening t called itself a mongoose. And it lived on to the radio. Through newscasts he learned a the Isle of Man in a lonely farmhouse look great deal of what was taking place in the ing out on the Irish Sea. The house. a very outside world old one, was called Doarlish Cashen. It And the outside world soon learned bought in 1917 by a Mr. James Irving about Jeff, Strangers began to come to Dour. In 1931 Mr. and Mrs. Irving began to talking ish Cashen. They hoped to see or hear the mongoose. Jeff would talk to hear strange noises behind the walls. There strangers, but only when he felt like it. If he were taps, hisses, growls, squeaks, and other animal sounds. Then one day Mr. Irving sensed that they did not believe he was real heard a gurgle. It sounded like a baby learn he shut up like a clam ng to talk. Mr. Irving thought he would were Harry Price and Richard Lambert. Mr Two strangers who did believe in Jeff answer the sounds. He barked like a dog. He meowed like a cat. To his surprise, his Price was an expert on the spirit world and sounds were repeated in a shrill, high voice the strange powers of the mind. Mr. Lambert Broadcasting Cor. Mr. Irving made the sounds again. This time worked for the British poration. The two men came to make a he followed each one with the name of the animal he was imitating The voice behind study of Jeff. They wrote a book about him It is called The Haunting of Cashen's Gap the wall repeated every word he said. Within a few weeks. Mr. Irving had 10 In spite of the book, many questions whatever it was to about Jeff still remain. What was he really? taught the thing speak well. He asked it what it was and Where did he come from? What made him so clever? Probably we will never know. In the where it had come from. At first it answered that it was a ghost in the form of a weasel middle 1930s the Irvings sold Doarish Later it said it was a mongoose. said its Cashen and moved away. The new owner name was Jeff. So the Irvings began to speak said that soon after taking possession of the of their mysterious guest as "he nstead of farm he shot a strange animal on the prop- erty. It could have been Jeff. For he has Jeff didn't let the Irvings see him at first never been heard from since Once in a while he would show his paws and let the family touch him. After some time Jeff let the Irvings' daughter photograph him. But the pictures did not come out we once they got used to him, the Irvings liked Jeff. Since Doarlish Cashen was a farm he proved to be quite useful. He rid the farm of mice and rats by throwing stones at them or by meowing like a cat. If he had to, he killed them. When the farm's goats stayed away too long, Jeff would go after them. He would bark at them like a dog and herd them home. He even caught rabbits for the dinner table. Jeff did not confine himself to Doarlish Cashen. He made visits to nearby houses and farms. And he loved to go to horse and cattle shows. Jeff would tell the Irvings what he had observed on his trips. His reports were later found to be quite true