The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-17
Must the Ghosts Go Too?
BY FREDERIC J. HAskIN

NEW YOK CITY, Sept. 17.-WhatI
has become of historic British ghosts,
now that so many English castles
and manor houses are being torn
down or sold at auction to plebian
newcomers?
This question is deeply agitating
the British Society for Psychical Re-
search, which has long been engaged
in the scientific investigation of such
old and welI-established family ghosts
In the breaking up of famous old Eng
lish estates it sees the end of valu-
able source of material. The ghosts,
it believes, will disappear after the
castles or manors have changed
hands and undergone elaborate re-
modelling.
Family ghosts" says one author
ity on the subject, 'are by no means
of a wandering disposition. Having
established reputation by haunting
one particular house, they stay there.
Some ghosts, as ancient family leg
ends inform US, have haunted one
house for centuries, never appearing
anywhere else.
And now that such haunted houses
are being auctioned, sold and torn
down, what will the poor ghosts do?
They may find new homes to haunt
the modern skyscrapers, apartment
houses and freshly painted green and
pink studios-but there will not be
any secret passages in which to clank
chains, nor ivy-clad turrets to parade
around, and no mysterious windows
l IN fit in the t11nnnlipht Enr-
thermore, with the going of the houses
will go the traditions which served to
keep the ghosts encouraged an in
spired.
Take the case of Windsor Castle,
continues this authority. which has
housed several prominent ghosts, in
Guiding Queen Bess herself 1t was
an officer of the Grena der 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, vanish.
ing through a certain part of the wall
in room at the end of the corridor
Investigation showed that three cen
turtles before there had been a door
since sealed, at that very spot.
That is the structure where the
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Duchess of Cleveland, the saucy.
tongued Duchess of Mazarin and the
unhappy Catherine Howard, slain by
Henry VIII, are said to have been
! seen. The last named woman, it was
reported by alleged witnesses, ran
through the corridor, hair streaming
behind, as she did one day when she
escaped from her guards and rushed in
-
husband"
What would happen to these ghosts
If Windsor Castle is torn down to make
room for modern industrial expan
, sion?'
Passing of the Manor
England's early history, including
many items CHASTITY enough to found
whole race of ghosts, was PRACTICAL,
, written around events which happened
in the castles and manors which have
, been recently sold. An English period
ical lists the following historic estate!
which have changed hands since the
war: Pembroke, "the Cradle of tn.
Tudors" where the first Tudor wa
: born; Fineshade Abbey, in Northamp
tonshire, built partly of stone taker
from the hall where Mary, Queen o
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priory, in Essex, erected in the earl,
part of the twelfth century; Able,
House, Abingdon, and the Sutton
; Courtenay Manor where the first "ren
|. kick" against profteering landlord
was voiced by tenants; Quenby Hous,
in Leicestershire, where Stilton chees.
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 foun,
asylum for few days. probably TIL,
place described by Dumas in hi
Y D'Artagnan romances; Oldham Castl
!, where David Bruce was taken prisone
:. in 1916; and the old Castle of Sker
S firth.
5 The Duke of Devonshire recent
sold Devonshire House in the yer
e fashionable Park Lane, London. and
. is reported that he old place will b
i torn down to make way for a moderI
:. hotel. Equally historic town an
!. country places have been abandone
Eat high price, by the Dukes @
Westminster, Rutland, MARLBOROUGH
g Grafton and Buccleuth, Lords Lecor
/, field. Londesborough. Portman an
Z Camden, the Earls of Denbigh and Hal
D rington, and many other noblemen. 1
!. 1920 one firm of auctioneers alone sol
;. 349,695 acres of country property, an
this year thousands of acres of oil
h estates are being sold weekly.
If, The reason for this widespread part
u ton of the huge country estates is hes
/; explained by speech made recent
e by the Duke of Portland to his tenant.
+" in which he said:
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l. The war has entirely altered tn
It outlook of myself, as it must hay
5, done that of other large land owner
in this country. For centuries pas
IF landed estates have in many instance
c. been handed down from generation
b generation in one family, and the Ian,
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