1: The Demon Drummer of Cortachy Castle
This article comes from the February 2, 1892, issue of the Brechin Herald.
[The following part might be difficult to read. It says: “…rivalry rather later than was usual for them. The game of chess had so absorbed their attention that they paid no heed to the hour, and when the clock struck midnight and the fire began to crackle and fall in the dreary way we all know is a sign of dissolution, the gentlemen thought it was time to move. The game was finished; the pieces replaced in the common grave-box of the pawn and knight, and king and queen….”]
Frith’s references are to Catherine Crowe’s chapter on haunted houses in Volume 2 of The Night Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers (T.C. Newby, 1848) pp. 73-74 and to Lucia C. Stone’s “The Brown Lady of Rainham,” found in Rifts in the Veil: A Collection of Inspirational Poems and Essays Given Through Various Forms of Mediumship (W.H. Harrison, 1878) pp. 97-98.
Raynham Hall still stands, and it can be visited.
3: The Mystery of Littlecote Hall
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