Middlecoat
Vanished like an old oak table
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2016
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- Location
- Winterfell
My work takes me into people's homes. I can't help myself in old properties: Is it haunted ? I inquire.
On one occasion I visited a family in a location close to a ruined Abbey. The lady of the household recounted the time she was hanging her washing on the line when she was disturbed by a solid looking monk who grimaced at her from the bottom of the garden. She screamed, ran in, locked the door and hid under the kitchen table. She has since been the subject of her family's unfettered teasing. There have been no monks in the Abbey since Henry V111 ( or rather Cromwell) did away with them.
More recently I googled an address only to find it had been the scene of a tragic murder/suicide in 1887. The building had been converted into flats. I couldn't let that go. The family were not aware of the history of the site but reported that the old lady in the next flat kept waking up to find her slippers moved from the side of her bed to various other locations.
On one occasion I visited a family in a location close to a ruined Abbey. The lady of the household recounted the time she was hanging her washing on the line when she was disturbed by a solid looking monk who grimaced at her from the bottom of the garden. She screamed, ran in, locked the door and hid under the kitchen table. She has since been the subject of her family's unfettered teasing. There have been no monks in the Abbey since Henry V111 ( or rather Cromwell) did away with them.
More recently I googled an address only to find it had been the scene of a tragic murder/suicide in 1887. The building had been converted into flats. I couldn't let that go. The family were not aware of the history of the site but reported that the old lady in the next flat kept waking up to find her slippers moved from the side of her bed to various other locations.