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Uncontrollable Harmone In Dr. Watson's Supernatural Incident
Another example of a supernatural event would be on p.44 when Dr. Watson and Sir Henry Baskervill are both awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of a woman crying. “It was the sobbing of a woman, the muffled strangling gasp of one who is torn by uncontrollable sorrow” p. 44 was Dr. Watson’s account of the incident. What makes this even qualify as supernatural is that after Dr. Watson goes looking for the woman he finds that the only female sleeping in the house is Mrs. Stapleton who claims to have not been crying and eludes to the possibility of s supernatural explanation of the sounds.
My third, and final example of a supernatural occurrence in the story would be when Dr. Watson and Mr. Stapleton are walking through the Moore

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