A COTTAGE GHOST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 22

A COTTAGE GHOST.

THE MONKISH SPECTRE. A FSR RAKER OF BUTTON'S. (S'liocliil.— Fly Air Mjill.) RONDON", ./nno 12. When a fiOO year-old cottage at Hornrhiircli, Esnex, U demolished to make room for a Inrge -tore, what will happen to the cottage ylwHt? He is a monk. . * Aldridge, tenant until recently, claims to have «ecn the ghost over a dozen time« In tin. |«*t two years*. '•Without, arty warning, and any time (luring tin- day or night," she said/' "the monk will appear dressed in a cassock with .1 girdle round his wawt and a cowl over hi* lie.yl. One evening, when the ghost wan walking, rny husband, who could iirrt nee it hut heard the noi«o anil felt the draught, called out. 'Make a «ign that you have heard me «[K>ak!' tiwt i t!y every button on his clothe* broke c!T, and a necklace belonging to my friend broke arid scattered the bead* all over tile floor." Two .wrct parages have been dincovered in recent yearn, leading from the cottage cellar*, one to St. Andrew'* Church, el.oiit half a mile away, the other to an old manor house, nearly two milett away.