The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-01-17
GHOST STORIES.

Ghost stories appear to be regarded
 as particularly seasonable at this. pe-
 riod (Chrstmas) of the year, although
 the custom has long gone out of fash
 ion of sitting round a great yule log
 and listening to tales which sent the
 guests to bed with something of an ap-
 prehension that they would meet a
 spectre at the bedroom door. But there
 are still many people who believe in
 grosts, and some who are absolutely
 convinced of their presence in certain
 cases. Dr. Mackay said that there
 were hundreds of houses in this coun-
 try shut up and uninhabitable, fallen
 into decay, and looking dreary and dus-
 ty, whence at midnight strange noises
 have been heard to issue houses that
 people have thought it unsafe to pass
 after dark, which have remained for
 years without tenants, which no tenant
 would occupy even were he paid to do
 So." There are still some of these
 houses, even in London, but we prefer
 ratherto glance at few of those great
 castles and mansions from which the
 tenants have not been driven by the
 fact that they are reputed to be haunt
 ed. Lowther Hall, in Westmoreland,
 Where the German emperor was the
 guest of Lord Lonsdale a few weeks
 ago, furnishes one example. There was
 an ancester Of the present earl, who is
 Gr1olFaro nf I tt
 or the bad Lord Lonsdale." For many
 years he was believed 10 haunt Low
 ther Hall. and although he was seldom or never seen, yet the people of the
 neighb0rhood were convinced that he
 was frequently heard, and that he was a great disturber of the peace of man and beast. Hampton Court Palace is
 said to have been visited by the spirit of a woman dressed in black, and there is similar tradition with regard to The Houses of Parliament. In both , cases the spectre is regarded as of a
 most inoffensive kind. Of course, Windsor Castle has it's ghost story; in- deed, we should be rather disappointed to fifind thatSit had not, and there is , another spectre which is said to appear at the Tower of London shortly before
 the decease of the reigning monarch.
 Glamis Castle, Forfarshire, is, like
 the Egyptian Hall, veritable home of 1 mystery" and one scarcely knows where to begin in referring to its appa- ritions There are various other legends; but interest centers in one room, which is known as the haunted chamber" where farmer lord of Gla-
 mis is reputed to have imprisoned some
 guests who had sought his hospitality,
 and there left them to starve. Of this rnOn? 2. most uncanny story Is told. On one occasion the head of the family de- termined to investigate the cause of the noises which were heard, and for that purpose resorted to the haunted cham i Der. What he saw we are not told, but it is related that upon opening the door with a key, he fell back in a dead swoon. nor could he ever be induced to open his lips on the subject afterward. There are several legends of the ap-
 pearance of a radiant boy" There is one associated with COrley Castle, Cumberland. One visitor, a clergyman, i relates how at dead of night he saw bright flame in the middle of the room, encircling "a beautiful boy, clothed in white, with bright locks resembling
 gold" The radiant boy does not ap- pear to have hurt anybody, but the clergyman did not wait for another vi- sion, and departed hurriedly the next