The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-28
HAUNTED PALACES.
Distinguished SpeCterS in England and
on the Continent.
Strange Occurrences in Stockholm
Last Year.

E&-AIldCuet Al new 1-OFk tribune.
1t is difficult to realize that here. at the
close of the nineteenth century, there
should still be educated people who be-
Heve in the existence of ghosts One
might have thought that the scepticism
which constitutes so Oh aracteristic
feature of the present age, as we'll as the
growing taste for psychical research and
materialism, would be su fficient to coun-
teract any such superstitions of media
eval times. But such is not the case
The belief in the supernatural seems not
TO diminish in Europe, but to increase
with the growth of logic, science and en-
lightenment, and it is noteworthy that it
is not among the relatively ignorant
masses of the people that superstition is
most strongly developed but among those
who have received instruction of the
highest order and who, either by popular
will or what is euphoniously described as
Divine Right" have been set up to di-
rect, guide and govern their fellow Great
ures.
1t has frequently occurred to me that
the belief in the supernatural might be
assumed by these great ones of the earth
for the purpose of endowing themselves
and their surroundings with respecta-
bility otherwise lacking. There is some
thing so eminentiy respectable in owning
a haunted house or palace. 1t partakes
of the nature of ancestry and blue blood
in that it cannot be acquired by purchase,
but must be inherited, evidence of this
popularity being furnished by the signif-
cant fact that none of the English pur-
che n the castles and frEr co re
of the old country families of Ireland has
ever to my knowledge been honored with
any visitation by the family Banshee or
the original proprietor. But the sceptic-
ism which this circumstance created in
my mind with regard to the existence of
spOoks has once more been disturbed by
the apparently authentic evidence af-
fOrded during the last few months of the
presence of specters in the royal English
palace of Hampton Court and at the
royal palace Of Stockholm
That Hampton Court Palace is sup
posed to be haunted is nothing new. 1t
has long enjoyed that reputation. In
deed, the corpora ton of the city of Lon
don is on record as having ordered II 600
masses to be said for the repose of the
soul of Queen Jane Seymour, one of the
many wives of King Henry VIII, with the
object of laying her ghost. which, even
in the reign of King James II, was won't
according to popular belief, to wander
about the corridor near the room where
Queen Anne Boleyn caught her sitting on
the kings knee. Unfortunately, these
masses do not seem to have been effica-
CiOus; for Queen James spectre contin-
ues. so we are assured, to haunt the pal
ace to this day Fifteen years ago the
inhabitants of the palace were alarmed
by the sound of the whirring of
spinning wheel at night, and, in
Difference to their urgent entreaties. the
government Office of works instituted an
Investigation, which resulted in the dis
COvery of a bricked- up, and until then IN
suspected, chamber, containing an an
cient spinning-wheel showing marks of
recent use. Reference to the old records
Of the palace showed this room TO have
formed one of the private apartments of
Queen Jane. Both the late Lady East
lake and Mrs. Cavendish Boyle. residents
in the palace, have vouched for the APP
pearance few years ago of a white ap-
partition, believed to have been that of
Queen Catherine Howard near the queens
great staircase, and have graphically de-
scribed the CHASTITY look of despair on
her face and the blOOd-curdling sounds of
her screams. An now we hear not only
of wholesale exodus of the servants en-
ployed at the palace, but even of its deser-
tiOn by widowed ladies of rank, who. in
husbands, have been accorded by the
queen free apartments there for life,
owing to the antics of yet a third ghost,
who is for some reason or other, believed
TO be that of Queen Anne Boleyn. 1t is
all very well to laugh at this. But SER
wants do not give up good places, nor do
titled ladies of limited means relinquish
50 great and highly priced privilege as
free apartments in royal palace for the
sake Of mere fancy or imagination.
Windsor Castle constitutes an exception
TO the general rule of royal and imperial
abodes in that it is absolutely free from
ghostly occupants. The specter of Herne
the Hunter is, however, believed by
superstitious people to roam under the
oaks of the Home park at certain times
10 the year. Buckingham palace is far
too modern a building to have a Banshee
OF its own, while if Marlborough house
were possessed of any spectral inhabi-
tant it could only be the spirit of that i'm
perlous spouse of the first Duke of MARI
borough, who is on record as having bull
he'd to tears and into utter submission the
good Queen Anne of glorious and
plous memory. ! have never
heard of any supernatural appari-
Tons at either Kensington Palace or at
st. James, although the tragedies which
nave occurred within the walls of the
latter royal abode, notably the mysterious
murder of the Duke of Cumberland s con
hdential valet Senlis, in the early part
OF thls century, ought to be sufficient to
people it from cellar to garnet with
Spectres. At Hollywood the ghost of the
murdered ,Rizzio, the troubadOur admirer
~ Mary Queen of Scots, is supposed to
promenade the gloomy old galleries after
mark and it is noteworthy that whenever
any member of the queens family is
forced to spend a night in the capital of
scotland hotel is preferred to the royal
palace ...
The Little Red Man, who used to haunt
me Iuilleries, before it was destroyed by
ureat the time of the Commune, and his
lWn brother, who still appears from
iHe to time, as a precursor of death, at
me Grand Ducal palace of Carmstadt.
are 100 well known to need more than
yasSlng reference here; and the same
may be said of the White Lady of he i'm
'erlal burg or palace at Vienna, and of
ler similarly attired sister, who makes
%Hodlcal visits to the old royal palace of
,trnn. Much has been written about
ms White Lady of the Hohenzollerns,
oncerning the authenticity of whose APP
"arances the late Emperor Frederick col
cted a wonderful array of records of the
uoSC convincing nature. There is, in
'4Iucular, sworn statement in the i'm
'trlaI archives, both at St. Petersburg
'uu at Berlin with regard to the APP
dfltlon of the White Lady to Prince
frederick of IoI,l1SSin and 10 a Marty of