GHOST HOUSE BLAZE

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 16 (Supplement)

GHOST HOUSE BLAZE

New Owner Talks of "Strange Occurrences” | scene of his suffering. , Reputed to be the most haunted A monastcry sto 'od on the spot i c ho “? e in En f and - Bot-ley Recto, w the Hpo| now slands . The . Sudbury, on ■ the Essex-suffolk bor mQnk , saiJ to ' have been caught ■ de £ pracl,call> ; d f oi „l b , ' while trvimr to elope with a novice , The house, empty for some years a nunnelT . He waß hanged and > was 10 bc °°f u P led 800 nb > Captam she was wa'led up alive. , Gregson and two sons. * p The lire started when an oil lamp Bclls , lluve smce hoen runp there suddenly crashed to the ground while invisible bands, and visitors claim Captain Grcgson was sorting books in that they have seen objects flying = the main hall, and before the fire about. brigade could arrive the house was Captain Grcgson, who has not yet in flames. decided whether he will rebuild the For the last 50 years there have Rectory, told a reporter, “I have had been many well-attested stories of no alarming but I must (lying objects ana other phenomena uimil there have been occurrences in at the house, and locally it is believed the house which 1 am unable to exthat a 13th-century monk haunted the plain."