Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-07
WHERE HISTORIC GHOSTS WALK.

Roytlayt's ghosts = the longest lived
torments IN tine world Of spcetres. Other
ghosts mAy be laid or may decide to
cease rom troubling mortal men and wo-
EN-, but with the dead and zone royal
ersonage who has been able to return It
Is different. For some reason the air of
court Is just the atmosphere that ghosts
prefer above all other, and they stay on
ana on, or return again and again to the
notification If lot the horror Of those
VINO chance to behold them on the oc-
casion of their visitatBonA
Inc last appearance Of q royal ghost
reported - at Hampton our palace.
Where the appearance OF q spectral hand
among the DC Flemish tapestries
in the guard chamber has caused no end
or CONSERVATION. Although the identity
OF the spectre is not known, it is thought
to be that Of some of the wives Of Henry
vllI.. for h ghosts Of two Of these UNI
women have already been seen
at Hampton court on other occasions.
OF the two, Catherine Howard seems to
pc the more troublesome. for not only
does she appear, blu insists upon shrek
ing wildly through the old, mysterious
haunted gallery"
1t was here that she escaped from her
chamber, when imprisoned there before
AN wv 01IO ~ t1lOllS
to seek an interview with Henry VIII,
VINO was hearing mass in the chapel.
lust as she reached the door the guards
seized her and carried her back, while
ner ruthless husband, in spite of the
piercing screams that were heard in all
parts of the palace, continued his aevo-
lions unmoved,
n is another Of Henry's
wives who is said to haunt the old-world
room of this palace. and there is no
lack OF testimony to show that a spectre
mas been seen to emerge from the door
way or the queens old apartments and
wander about with a lighted taper in
ther hand over the stairs and in the
nelghboring Silverstick gallery.
A GENUINE GHOST.
During the reign Of ling James H., or
about 22O years ago the city of London
voted that l-,v.J masses should be said
Tor the repOse of the soul of Queen Jane
Seymour, the officially avowed intention
being that of laying her ghost" AL
tnough these masses were probably said
as the payment for them still figures on
the city records, they do not seem tc
have been ~eficacious, as the ghost Of the
dead woman has been seen several times
since that day.
Hampton is not the only palace
that is haunted, however. From one enc
or the British isles to the other it would
de difficult to discover a palace thay Is
not haunted by one or more banishees
Thus, Hollywood palace, at Edinburgh, is
said to be haunted by the ghost of the
murderer Rizzio. M it is claimed tina
at least three royal spectres have beer
seen at Windsor, they being the ghosts
Of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth ACC
Charles 1.
If the old-fashioned conventional view
is to be accepted, and we are to believe
that ghosts haunt the earth because O.
crimes committed in the eflsh, Henry
VIII. must be supplied with eycellen'
excuses for furnishing a ghost. However
that may be, the records show that ther,
are many people who believe that the,
have seen him stalking steadily and 81
lently around the old library room.
Both the Empress Frederick Of Ger.
many. Oldest daughter of the queen, anC
Mr.. Holmes, the librarian of Windsor
declare that they lave seen the ghoZt o
Queen Elizabeth in the great state Ii
brary. On the occasion when MI
Holmes saw the spectre he was readin,
IN q corner of the ROOM, and the form
passed him as if it did not see MIN. I'm
| mediately he left mis- book and. ollowet
the spectre until it suddenly appea
through a closed door. Although Mr.
Holmes had seen the apparition of tht
long-dead queen, with ]coronet, ruff, jew
the guard at the other side of the dool
said that no one h>\l passed that way.
WINDSOR GHOSTS.
The Dean of Windsor, who is alst
chaplain to the queen, is not sure wheth
er Henry VIII. or Queen Elizabeti
haunts the cattle, yet he is ready to takt
his oath that the spirit of Charles I. is tx
be seen annually in the vicinity, for HI
has witnessed the st of the beheadet
monarch in IN ancient house in tn,
canon's closet, which is a dependency o
the castle.
1t would be difficult to imagine a NOR,
suita BILE locality for ghosts than Wind
sor castle. 1t has been the residence O.
every English monar since William tn,
Conqueror, n a thus seen more thai
800 years of splendor, blood, crime, ro
nance and tragedy. 1t was built b!
William shortly after 1866. st. Georges
chapel, which was attached to it, wa
completed by Henry VII.