Haunted England: The Penguin Book of Ghosts by Jennifer Westwood

Haunted England: The Penguin Book of Ghosts by Jennifer Westwood

Author:Jennifer Westwood [Westwood, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Folklore & Mythology, Religion & Spirituality, New Age & Spirituality, Reference, Occult & Paranormal, Ghosts & Hauntings, Supernatural, Travel, Europe, Great Britain, England, General, New Age, Occult, Ghosts & Haunted Houses, Specialty Travel
ISBN: 0141039744
Amazon: B00ECL3Q8Q
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-10-29T23:00:00+00:00


J. A. Brooks, on the other hand, speaks of a ‘horrible shapeless object [which] slid into the room’.

The supposed cause for the haunting is variously given. Antony Hippisley Coxe lists three: that one owner kept his mad brother locked away in that room; that a girl threw herself out of the window to escape a sexual assault by her uncle; and that a Scottish maid was tortured there. It was said that when the house was eventually let again, towards the end of the nineteenth century, the new tenants were charged only a peppercorn rent for the first three years, but would have to pay a huge forfeit if they lost their nerve and quitted.



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