Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-20

New York City, Sept. 14.--What is
| to become Of historic British ghosts
now that so many English castles and
| manor houses are being torn down OF
| sold at auction to plebian newcomers
This question is deeply agitating the
British Society for Psychical Research
| which has long been engaged in the
scientific investigation of such old and
well.established family ghosts. In the
breaking up of famous old English es-
tates it sees the end of valuable
source OF material. The ghosts, it be-
heves, will disappear after the cas-
undergone elaborate remodeling.
Family ghosts" says one authority
on the subject. ARE by no means Of a
wandering disposition. Having estab-
lished a reputation by haunting one
particular house, they stay there. Some
ghosts, as ancient family legends in
form us, have haunted one house for
centuries, never appearing anywhere
else.
"And now that haunted houses are
being auctioned. sold and torn down,
what will the poor ghosts do? They
may find new homes to haunt-modern
skyscrapers, apartment houses and
freshly painted green and pink studios
but there will not be any secret pas
sages in which to clank chains, nor ivy
clad turrets to parade around, and no
mysterious windows to fit across in
the moonlight. Furthermore, with the
going Of the houses will go the tradi-
tons which served to keep the ghosts
encouraged and inspired.
Take the case Of Winsdor Castle"
continues this authority, (which has
housed several prominent ghosts, in
Guiding Queen Bess herself. 1t was
an officer of the Grenadier Guards
who first saw the phantom of Queen
Elizabeth 20 or 80 years ago. He de-
clared it suddenly appeared and glided
along in front of him, vanishing through
certain part Of the wall in room
at the end of the corridor. Investiga-
ton showed that three centuries be-
fore there had been a door, since seal
ed. at that very spot.
That is the structure where the
ghosts of the quarrelsome but beauti-
full Duchess of Cleveland. the saucy-
tongued Duchess of Mazarin and the
unhappy Catherine Howard, slain by
Henry III, are said to have been seen.
The last named woman, it was report
ed by alleged witnesses, ran through
the corridor, hair streaming behind.
as she did one day when she escaped
from her guards and rushed in to beg
for her life from her royal husband
What would happen to these ghosts
if Winsdor Castle is torn down to make
room for modern industrial expan-
sion?''
Passing Of the Manor.
Fnpland's early history, including
many items CHASTITY enough to found
n whole race of ghosts, was practically
written around events which happened
in the castles and manors which have
been recently sold. An English period
cal lists the following historic estates
which have changed hands since the
war: Pembroke, ''the cradle of the
Tudors' where the first Tudor was
born; Fineshade Abbey, in Northamp-
tonshire. built partly of stone taken
from the hall where Mary Queen OF
Scots was executed; st. Osyth's priory,
in Essex, erected in the early part of
the twelfth century; Abbey House.
Abingdon, and the Sutton Courtenay
Manor, where the first rent kick
against profiteering landlords was
voiced by tenants; Quenby house in
where Stilton cheese
was first made; the Stoke Park estate, |
home Of John Penn. where the monu
ment to the poet Gray was erected;
Snowre Hall, where Charles I found
asylum for few days, probably the
place described by Dumas in his Dart
agnan romances; Oldham Castle where |
David Bruce was taken prisoner in |
1916; and the old Castle Of Skenfrith. |
The Duke Of Devonshire recently |
sold Devonshire House in the very
Park Lane, London. and