BRITAIN’S WONDERS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 19

BRITAIN’S WONDERS

HAUNTED CASTLES Given a ghost and a castle, you are led to expect thrilling stories. Add historical associations to the eerie scenes and your wonder is intensified. Britain can supply these romantic ingredients. to an almost unlimited degree. - Both Queen Elizabeth .and George 111 are said to revisit the scenes o£ their one-time splendour, Windsor Castle; ■ while in the park adjoining, Herne the Hunter sometimes presents himself in. vaporous form. The appearance of a white stag, it is said, immediately precedes some national crisis. Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, ' is haunted by two ghosts: that of Catherine of Aragon floating about the 1 galleries of the residence where she spent so many sad years; and that of the stern judge, Sir John Popham. His spirit-form sits astride the park wall, or, retaining some of his old alertness, even lies in wait for “rogues and poachers” beneath the great elms! Glamis Castle is full of ghostly happenings. Apart from the existence of a mystery chamber whose secret is. known to only three living people, queer sounds as if a scaffolding were being erected have been heard in the ■courtyard; and the huge-armoured, figure of Earl Patie tramps along corridors and up and down the stairs. The evil spirit of William Lord Soulis, who once inflicted terrible sufferings on people by his black magic, " Wandcfs restlessly through his former residence, Hermitage Castle, Liddesdale. And Cortachy, Forfarshire, is • haunted by the ghost of the drummer boy, who, incurring the wrath of his master, was thrust into the drum and hurled to his death from the topmost turretl