Life Imitates Art
The famous couple, novelist J.B. Priestley and archeologist Jacquetta
Hawkes, told of a friend in a letter their Strange Coincidence. The letter
to Arthur Koestler dated February 7, 1972 reads:
My wife bought three large lithographs by Graham Sutherland. When they
arrived here from London she took them up to her bedroom, to hang them up
in the morning. They were leaning against a chair and the one on the
outside, facing the room, was a lithograph of a grasshopper. When Jacquetta
got into bed that night, she felt some sort of twittering movement going
on, so she got out and pulled back the clothes. There was a grasshopper in
the bed. No grasshopper had been seen in that room before, nor has been
seen since. No grasshopper has been seen at any other time in the house.
Sources:(Mysteries of the Unexplained, p.77)