HEADLESS NUN MYSTERY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 11

HEADLESS NUN MYSTERY

GHOST REAPPEARS AFTER 20 YEARS. DATCHET, March 27 The headless ghost of a beautiful nun, who according to legend, was secretly murdered in the historic monastery of Windsor, has reappeared after twenty years. She haunts Southsea Farm, Dutchet, which is owned by a Mr. Jones.' The walled-in ruins of the monastery, now form part of his property. They make an ceric silhouette against the night sky. Several residents of Datchet say that they have seen the ghost. Her last visitation was witnessed by Mr. Ernest Scane, whose cottage adjoin* the ruins. “FASCINATED.” "I had just returned from Windsor about ten o’clock, at night,” ha said to me, “when I became conscious of a peculiar influence in the garden of my house. I have never known such a feeling before. Suddenly, twenty yards away, I saw the ngure of a woman standing by a post on the site of the monastic building. It beckoned to me. I felt helpless—fascinated. "Suddenly the ghost vanished into a tool shed, but reappeared almost instantly, and darted through a locked door Into the monastery gardens. The moment it disappeared the atmosphere became normal. I have not the slightest doubt that I saw the ghost.” Mr. Becksord, a neighbour, told me lie had seen the headless nun. “I saw her in tbe fields some years ago,” he said. "She was so clearly a woman that I Imagined she was alive. When I approached she vanished. and I have never sgpn her since.”