9: The “White Lady” of Ashley Hall
This article comes from the March 22, 1892, issue of the Brechin Herald.
This paragraph is tough to read. It says: “Aye, Pride and Poverty, I said. It was bad enough when the rush was on the floor, the tapestry on the wall, the table groaning under venison and boar, and the home-brew and red wine in horn and goblet. ‘Twas not all hollowness then, though what seemed, was; the land was the laird’s. It’s all hollow yonder, all false, false, false. All white sepulchres, young lady. Whited sepulchres! I tell you, you tread on ashes. Beware! Trust not them — they are Dead Sea fruits, your merchant’s apeing aristocracy. Fair though it seems, it is but the result of disease, like the pearl in your hair yonder in the mirror — –“
Frith refers to the chapter on Denton Hall in John H. Ingram’s The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain: Second Series. The structure still stands, and accommodations are available at the Hall itself as well as elsewhere on the grounds.
11: The Itchell Ghost
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