Diaries reveal Clarkson ancestor predicted reincarnation as loud car-loving Jeremy.

By Our Entertainment Editor: Arthur Pint

LONDON—Historians have revealed that Jeremy Clarkson’s great, great grandmother, Countess Marjorie Clarkson of Kircaldy, was an enthusiastic occultist who firmly believed the dead could rise again, reincarnate, or at the very least make a noise in the corner of a darkened drawing room.

The discovery comes after a cache of diaries belonging to the Countess, who died in 1912, was uncovered during routine archival cataloguing. The handwritten volumes show that Marjorie Clarkson wrote extensively—and without apparent irony—about ghosts, reincarnation, resurrection, and the general unreliability of physical death.

In one entry, she describes spirits as “terribly chatty,” while another details her conviction that the soul “merely changes address.” Several passages record séances held at respectable homes, complete with tea, candlelight, and what she referred to as “vigorous table rumblings.”

Grave prediction

Occultism was fashionable among Victorian society’s upper ranks, and the diaries place the Countess in social circles that included Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens, both of whom are said to have attended gatherings where conversation alternated between literature, politics, and attempts to contact the deceased via Ouija board. Historians stress this was considered entirely respectable at the time.

One entry has drawn particular attention. In a séance dated 1889, Marjorie records a message allegedly received from beyond the grave predicting that she herself would one day be reincarnated “as a man of considerable volume, enthusiasm, and mechanical obsession, named Jeremy.”

Representatives for Jeremy Clarkson declined to comment, though sources close to him suggested he was “unsurprised” and “mildly disappointed it didn’t involve Viking warriors.”

Historians confirm the diaries are authentic and say further analysis is ongoing, particularly into whether the Countess ever attempted to contact the future presenters of Top Gear directly.

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