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WHITE LADIES AND OTHER

SPOOKS

BEU) By CYRIL DONSON

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7HITE Christmasses may be in short supply but there's likely to be no shortage of WHITE LADIES, the white-clad women who haunt about a dozen houses in England at Christmas.

Yuletide seems to be their favourite time for showing themselves, and white the fashion most favoured.

footsteps, and the barking of dog, have been heard on three nights in auccession during Christmas week.

As midnight strikes on hoping to see the ghost of a Christmas Eve in n

stain on his huntsman with a man-

chook. For many years pas alon in Suffolk, neur Mildon- hall, a White Lady will op pear. Silently, with superh grace, she will float through the large, spacious drawing Theso room if she keeps her ap- followed by pointment. Her expression on the door... then....nothing guests wait. Filty is sweet but and BA she ...but

ago the knocking was glances back before followed by a vision....tho vanishing through the solid huntsman himself! doors,

No one

ม

she

knows who

Another White Lady who appears at Christmas, is rather rince choosy. She only appears to those born during the month of December. She visits a home In the Quorn country.

years

sounds have keen three gentle tops

He

BONY, emaciated ghost. said to be that of a miser. makes his appearance in one of the halls of Yorkshire. I thought to have made vast fortune out of the poor of London during the Plague, and then retired to the big houNC to count his money for the rest of his days....always living in deadly fear that he might liave caught the dreaded Plague. She is seen in her favourite He was, in life, shunned by the bedroom and her approach is wealthy because of Zeralded by a strange glow, savoury soft white light illuminates the rnom. The gown she wents 19 like lustrous white silk, ker face is filed with a saziness that is unforgettable. It is said

K

his un-

reputation....ond he returns ench year continue counting his hoard.

MOST of the royal residences

sho mourns, a lost love, a fickle too, have their ghosts and at lover who broke a tryst Christmas Eve-pud Бо sbe, with broken her keeps the tryat every year, hoping that he will come.

least one is said to materialise en Christmas Eve.

It is tho phantom nun- according to eye-witnesses, an exceedingly mournful appari tion, wreathed in vell of cobwebs and with goping. emply cyo - Fockets—which TUTEN, there are the Brown haunts Sandringham House.

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their stately white counterparts, The most famous of these, and certainly the most carefully authenticated or ghosts, is one thist appears at the Norfolk seat of the Townshends, Two guesis here once sat up after all others In the house had retired for the night. The Brown Lady ap ptured to them, a lovely (creature in

brown brocade gown.

Her features were so clear to then that one was able to make askelch of her

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rich

Socking lost lover, another Brown Lady Miles dismally through three rvoms of a house In the Duchy of Cornwall on Christmas Eve.

EXO

BUT all, Christmas Ghosts are not women. Guests assemble cach December ́in a mansion

Minehead

Itar

Somerset,

of listening plommaro

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on

This royal homo

what once

a nunnery,

way bullt was the site or

according

The ghost, legend, is that of a beautiful girl, daughter of a knight, who We murdered by the abbess the ab- because she seduced beas's brother shortly before he

was about to enter a monastery.

The girl was persuaded by the abbess to become a nun to explate her sins. She entered

ARTICLE NUMBER EIGHT

the nunnery on Christmas Eve. Tho abboss bricked her up alive in one of the crypts and put à curso on her. Ever since she has appeared, the story goes, on Christmas Eve, sadly roaming the scene of her tragle death.

EX

is

DUCKINGHAM Palace too

sold to have its Christmas ku a white, spectre. This

emaciated Arure which walks along the terrace of the west front of the

chuins dismal, clanking its It is caid that the ghost is that of a monk who was pat in chains and lodged in a rell for some there to

died, in his chains. The spot where Buckingham Palace now stands was indeed land owned by the Church in pre-Reformation days.

wrong-doing. and

D

NT. James's Palace is haunted

by the Duchess of Mazarin, former mistress of Charica 11- she is seen wearing only a thin nightdress.

Shoring this haunt with the lady is

is a more gruesome one, that of leper, who is supposed, appear at times, in the court- yard, where in former days a lper hospital once stood.

to

it

afier

well-preserved considering was erected in the 13th century. The locul Wakeman Ilved in it. The house had stood empty for many years, then, being cleaned and generally re- conditioned, it was opened be

This was fore a large crowd, in 1923. "As part of the core- monial, the elty horn has blown outside the old house. Loud and clear the horn

sounded, then, as the last notes and faded away....the crowd sud- denly gasped.

I

LAVERY eye was glued to

window in the ancient house. A figure was standing inside the room, staring out at the crowd .... figure dressed in clothes of a period few could recognise ....Descriptions WETO Loken afterwards, and each talled. From these the authorities established the figure had been wearing 13th century clothes! Copy of a painting of the first Wakeman to live in the house was unearthed by n local historian. Every detall of the gure seen by hundreds at the window that day tallied exactly with the pleture of the Arst Wakeman, Hugh Ripley.

Whatever view you take, or TOME doubi might wise if only

Chrisimas ghosts, it seems hard to doubt that some ghosts do exist.

DUYU

WHAT of this incident which occurred in broad daylight, was witnessed by hundreds of people, and happened little over thirty years ago?

At Ripon, Yorkshire, there is a building known as the Wake.. num's House. It is remarkably.

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saw it meny

one had seen the figure, but when hundreds simultaneously, descriptions itted perfectly the picture of Hugh Ripley (never seen before by any of them)

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