Ghosts in the Great War, and true tales of haunted houses : $b Thrilling experience of "Daily News" readers
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Ghosts in the Great War, and true tales of haunted houses : $b Thrilling experience of "Daily News" readers
Ghost stories
Determined to find out the cause of these happenings, I asked the
next-door neighbour if he could explain them. “Don't you know?” he
asked. “Jack” (mentioning the man I had seen) “committed suicide in
your house. The landlord lets it cheaper than the others, but nobody
will stay in it!”
Needless to say, I did not stay. I moved back to my old home, the
same day. At the present time, although there is a shortage of
houses, you can often see in the window of this house, the sign “To
Let.”
TEMPLECOMBE
WHILST engaged in domestic service at a large county house on the
Dorset border, a young scullery-maid, who was ill, told us the lady
had been to see her, but she was, somehow, afraid of her, and she did
not speak. We other three who were there thought this odd, and I
asked what was she dressed in. The girl replied black, and she had
shiny things in her hair and round her neck. I had happened to meet
the lady in the corridor and she was wearing a blue tea gown, so we
persuaded her she had been dreaming. In course of time, I met an old
lady of eighty-five, who had lived in the house in the days of her
youth. She asked me had I seen the ghost. I said no, and asked what
it was like. She replied: “A lady in black with lots of diamonds on;
she used to walk right the length of the first floor. The butler used
to try to catch her, but never could.”
It was part of my duty every evening during the two years I lived
there to shut shutters and fix bells on all the windows on this
particular floor, yet I never saw anything, whereas the poor girl I
have mentioned was in the house only three weeks and was so
frightened.
SOUTH WALES
SOME years ago I was living in a small mining village in South Wales.
Being a widow with a family, I was glad to let a married daughter and
her husband rent part of the house. When I first went to live in that
particular house the neighbours told me that a previous tenant, an
old man who lived alone, was one morning found dead, sitting in a
chair. I was, however, not at all superstitious, so thought no more
about it.
We had got quite settled in our house, when, one night, on retiring
to bed, we heard footsteps coming upstairs and stop at my bedroom
door.
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