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CHRISTMAS

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rise to

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Magic, and terrorised the in- habitants of the neighbouring countryside. It was his custom to kidnap young `children and stories, but in traditionally Miss Millbank, and he describes soldiers, and TOVET since

take them to a secret dungeon one of the nights of the the incident in ono of his located Strange noises com-

of his castle, where he is sup- posed to have murdered them year when

these strange poems. The poet also had the Ing from underground and

the and used their blood in the per- phantoms are said to make fancy that portraits of his fore miraculous' bloodstain on

fathers on the walls would stone floor, gave

the formance of his unholy riten their brief reappearance on leave their frames to haunt story of the ghost of a moni:

After years of suffering at earth.

him, notably h18

of this baron, the great-uncle, who was murdered there long the hands Sir John Byron.

ugo.

Earlier in this century, people rose against him. Way- when there was much specula Inid by a band of the strongest Bisham Abbey, £ beautiful tion about the mystery, a re-

men, he was bound with iron Tudor mansion, on the banks ward of £60 WAS actually chulng and carried away to old castles, abbey ruins, of the Thames, in Buckingham- offered for the discovery of the moet a fearful death · ត mansions, and lonely manor shire, has been haunted for hidden passage. Archaeologists cauldron of boiling lead, houses which are believed to centuries by a murderer's ghost. and water-diviners made inves- today, local folk fear to go any

Hermitage Camilo

In every part of Great Britain, there are famous

L

Even

NOTHER Scottish castle cake.

be haunted by the ghosts llere lived Sir Thomas Hobby Ugations, but the riddle of the where near

and hla wife Elizabeth, Lilleshall .monk 19 still on dark, wintry nights, where of persons who once lived in woman of unnatural cruelty unsolved.

they bellevo the restless soul them. Several of these time- who murdered one of her

Scotland, of course, has of Lord Soulls returns to re- castles dotted enact his crimes of long,aga.. honoured ghosts are report children. Tradition has it that ed to have been

tormented spirit returns several haunted Been or her

again and again to the house, over its lonely moots and glens, heard in fairly recent years, In fact, Lady Hobby's ghost has many an cerle tale is told or them Glamis, Castle, an- room where cestral and, of course, new ones are been seen in the

homo 'of Queen she committed her crime, try Elizabeth, and seat of the Earls occasionally added.

ing in vain to rid its hands of of Strathmore, has been the brated for its hauntings is bloodstains,

scene of many supernatural Cortachy Castle, the Forfarshire: happenings, and contains an sent of the Ogilvy family, who apartment whose grim secret is have borne the title of Earls of

the time known only to the owner and Airlie since

of Charles his heir. Beautiful Rosalyn I. The story teils of a hand- up the Thames Castie has

a haunted chapel some young dry

drummer in

Eori who Eve, the ghosts of Lady Jane Valley is the ruined manor which is said to be ilt by an service of a former

of and Catherine Howard house Stanton Harcourt, unearthly radiance when

with his master's a fell in love Grey wander forth through the older where Alexander Pope Ilved member of the St Clair family beautiful wife. One day, the Earl discovered this youth mak- apartments, and that corner of between 1716 and 1718, and comes about to die.

ing advances to the Countess, the palace called the Haunted pleted his translation of Homer's

and, in a At of jealous rage, Iliad. Close to the ruins is the Gallery.

ordered that he should be scal-. Lady's Pool, so-called because a

***********ed In his own drum and thrown beautiful young girl was once

broken love affair. At

Hampton Court Palace is the of all Britain's most haunted royal homes, recolling memories of unhappy queens. For here. when the gatehouse clock has struck midnight, on Christmas IGHER

Ladies in white

the

a DUT the most gruesome story to his death from the highest

found drowned there is concerns Hérmitage Castle, furret of the castle. „ITIRADITION has it that, mas time, or whenever the pool an ancient Borderland stronghold

the Liddesdale valley of So, from TRADE

time to time, the on the night before her dries up, her ghost, robed in in

Catherine a Jong, white gown, forsakes its Roxburghshire. Standing starkly ghoally drummer of Cortachy execution, POOT

making itself and against the sky on the edge of has reappeared, Howard

awhile, cscaped from her resting place

the

distinctly outside the melan- desolate moorland, it seems the heard and rushed towards wanders through guards,

Tooms of the perfect example of a haunted castle walls, usually before the a last choly, roofless the chapel to make

death ruin.

of a member of the appeal for mercy to Henry VIII, former mansion.

Hero Hved the terrible Wit- Ogilvy family. This has ac- who was attending Muss there.

seem to bo

llam, Lord Soulis, who, among hually happened on more than And, on many occasions since,

diabolical attainments, one

the occasion within

Last Shrouded, extremely common in the world other the figure of the

the

Black century. art of practised Lady, bearing a lighted candle of spooks, and there is hardly in her hand has been seen a county in Britain without.one. strangest of making

her hopeless fight But perhaps the

all such apparitions is the ghost through the palace.

of

which Lady Lightfoot, Windsor Castle has Charles I liaunts the Old Court House at Sholaley Walsh, in Worcester- and Queen Elizabeth

among

shire.

Some time during the On Christmas Its royal ghosts. Eve, fifty-two years ago, the sixteenth century, this lady was Imprisoned and cruelly murder- spectre of a lady wearing ed in the mansion by an un black-lace mantula, nil to own killer. Local people resemble a portrait of 'Good

Will tell you that, about Queen Bess, was reported by midnight each Christmas Eve, спе of the guards · on duty she rides through the place in ECONOMICAL along the castle walls, In the aphantem carriage, drawn by

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Great Park, outside, the shadowy figure of Herne the Then the carriage and its Hunter still Prowils after solitary occupant plunges head-

midnight about the site of the long into the most surrounding famous oak tree nazidd after the walls, and is not seen again-

for another year.

him.

Even Westminster Abbey can boast at least one haunting.

though the origin of this ghost;

is unknown. But twice with-

REMARKABLE kinj

in the last quarter-of-a-century A ghost store is associated

the

the mysterious Cowled Monk

Burton Agnes Hall has startled visitors to the, with

York- Bridlington, in Fast occasion near colatera

About 300 years ago, being in 1932

Apparently, shire.

daughter of the family it gildes about with its feet an a inch or two above the paving died in the house, and it was alones the floor level, presume her last wish that her head ably, of the days when the ghost might be preserved in the Great was a living monk, wont to Hall for ever

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ago, nevertheless, haunted houses is Now some dreadful calamity Some Abbey a few miles sceptical visitor laughed at from Nottingham, which was such superstition; and displaced the home of Lord Byron, the skull. Almost immediately, Originally, the place was an, weird noises were to be heard Augustinian monastery, founded about the house, and, doors, in the reign of Henry II, but, banged in ceria succession. after the Dissolution, it passed, These ghostly happentags to the Byron family, who held proved so terrifying that, be the property until 1818, or any explanation

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