1930s in the Isle of Man

thumb|George Scott's sketch of Gef the talking mongoose, from 1936 thumb|A 1932 article that suggested trickery and ventriloquism from Voirrey Irving was the cause of the Gef phenomena Gef ( ), also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was an allegedly talking mongoose which inhabited a farmhouse owned by the Irving family, located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry