SOME HAUNTED HOUSES [Illustration] _NOVELS BY ELLIOTT O’DONNELL_ [Illustration] FOR SATAN’S SAKE THE UNKNOWN DEPTHS JENNIE BARLOWE, ADVENTURESS DINEVAH THE BEAUTIFUL SOME HAUNTED HOUSES OF ENGLAND & WALES BY ELLIOTT O’DONNELL ASSOCIATE OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH LONDON EVELEIGH NASH FAWSIDE HOUSE 1908 PREFACE In selecting a series of ghost stories for this volume I have taken the greatest care to make use of those only which are thoroughly well authenticated. The result of this discrimination has been that the majority of these accounts of psychic phenomena have been taken from the lips of eye-witnesses and transferred to manuscript in as nearly as possible the narrator’s own language. First-hand narratives of unfamiliar hauntings, albeit they refer to the meaner class of houses, will, I think, be more welcome to the reader than the mere repetition of such hackneyed stories as those appertaining to Glamis Castle, the Tower of London, &c. In one other point, too, this work may be said to differ from others dealing with the same subject--viz., it is compiled and written by a very keen psychic--one who has not only investigated (and lectured on) haunted houses, but has himself seen many occult manifestations. As there have been several libel cases quite recently in connection with the alleged haunting of houses, I have been obliged (save where it is stated to the contrary) to give fictitious names to both people and localities. ELLIOTT O’DONNELL. GUILSBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTON. CONTENTS PAGE THE GREEN BANK HOTEL, BARDSLEY 9 NO. -- SOUTHGATE STREET, BRISTOL 15 MULREADY VILLA, NEAR BASINGSTOKE 26 NO. -- PARK STREET, BATH 42 THE MINERY, DEVON 53 THURLOW HALL, NEAR EXETER 59 THE GUILSBOROUGH GHOST 73 WOLSEY ABBEY, NEAR GLOUCESTER 97 NO. XYZ EUSTON ROAD, LONDON 106 PANMAUR HOLLOW, MERIONETH 113 CATCHFIELD HALL, THE MIDLANDS 118 BURLE FARM, NORTH DEVON 140 CARNE HOUSE, NEAR NORTHAMPTON 148 HARLEY HOUSE, PORTISHEAD 160 THE WAY MEADOW, SOMERSET 166 NO. -- HACKHAM HOUSE, SWINDON 177 APPENDIX TO ABOVE, THE SCREAMING WOMAN OF TEHIDDY 182 PARK HOUSE, WESTMINSTER 187 GLOSSARY 191 HAUNTED HOUSES THE GREEN BANK HOTEL, BARDSLEY THE RACE FOR LIFE Technical form of apparitions: Phantasms of the dead Source of authenticity: Evidence of eye-witness Cause of haunting: Murder