“GHOSTS” IN ANCIENT CASTLE
THREE SKELETONS DUG UP
The inhabitants of poroli*>tor. at tile upper end of Portsmouth liarhor. have, so they hold, evidence that gliosts are no figment of the imagination. Porohostcr clusters around the grev walls of an old-time castle, originally an early British camp. Then a Roman fortress, later a Norman stronghold, and in the Napoleonic war a jail for French prisoners. *■ Many tragedies have happened inside it. Now three skeletons have been found buried at a spot where ghosts, so it- is alleged, were definitely seen to vanish on at least three separate occasions last winter. , Porchester Castle has been scheduled as an Ancient Monument,, and the skeletons were unearthed during repair works by Office of Yorks laborers digging a’ trench inside the wall. One skeleton is apparently that of a woman. _ On several occasions small-pox and other epidemics broke out among the French prisoners in the castle, and considerable numbers of them died and were buried there.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 5
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