A PAIR OF GHOSTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)

A PAIR OF GHOSTS

ENGLISH HOUSE’S TENANT In a creeper-clad house at Kew Green, Surrey, there lives a family which tells of strange visitors and uncanny happenings. According to a servant who has lived in the house for 28 years, there are two ghosts—one a lumbering, tramping, shuffling tiling prowl in r about the upstairs rooms, and the other a demure little old woman haunting the back garden. The house; named Beaconsfleld, was built in the time of George 1., and even now there is an element of doubt as to the number of its rooms. „ The owner-tenant, Mr. F. W. Frost, a member of the Richmond Borough Council, has traced 14, all different in size. He has also found secret passages behind the panellings. In the house with Mr. and Mrs. Frost are Mrs. Frost's mother. Mrs. Hobson, her daughter, Mrs. Adams, and a servant. The servant stated recently: The ghost upstairs made its presence heard when I had been in the house only a few months, but it did not frighten me. Now, when I am alone in the kitchen at night* and hear it tramping overhead I take no notice of it. At one time I was curious to see what i* looked like, but it has always eluded me. Airs. Hobson, according to the servant, was once pushed across the room by an unseen hand when she tried to put a basket in the linen cupb<*ird. . The ghost haunting the garden is described as that of a little old woman, wearing a Queen Anne costume and a headdress. It has been seen by Mrs. Adams, who had also been visited by the ghost upstairs, which, she says, has opened doors, tw'itched the bedclothes and even rocked the beds.