A lady
descends the stairway
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Things
that go bump – at any time!
Not long ago a member of the Newstead staff, Maisie Hammond,
was looking for a colleague before the Abbey was due to open
to the public for the day.
She walked from the front door, through the Cloisters and
turned in the Beckett Room where she bumped into someone.
Turning to apologise she was amazed to see that she had walked
through a brownish shape which then disappeared through the
doorway, leaving the usually pragmatic Northumbrian lady feeling
decidedly intimidated and shaken.
Another
member of staff had a similarly disturbing experience when
she was descending the short spiral staircase from the two
rooms comprising Byron’s bedroom and dressing room, the
cell the Black Monk is most often reputed to haunt.
As she came downstairs, she became aware that ‘something’
was following her and then had the sensation that whatever
it was passed right through her.
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