12: The Nun and the Lady of Watton
This article comes from the February 2, 1892, issue of the Ripon Reporter. It was among of a reprint of Frith’s series.
As Frith explains, Hinton Manor (a.k.a. Hinton Ampner) no longer stands. For a fuller account of the haunting and Jervis and Luttrell’s investigation of it, please read the “Purposeless Ghosts: Jervis, Bolton, and Luttrell at Hinton Ampner” chapter in Certain Nocturnal Disturbances: Ghost Hunting Before the Victorians. In the meantime, you might enjoy my post about four prominent cases of a haunting being substantiated by the claim that skeletal remains were unearthed there. It became a minor motif in the Victorian-era ghost reports.
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