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The
"Goblin Friar" was said to appear to the head of
the Byron family before any unhappy event...
Shortly before his disastrous marriage to Anne Milbanke, Byron
encountered the Black Friar of Newstead Abbey.
This ghost, also known as the "Goblin Friar", was
said to appear to the head of the Byron family before any
unhappy event. The poet recalls this meeting in his poem "Don
Juan".
Lord Byron had several supernatural experiences in a bedchamber
known as the Rook Cell.
When sleeping
here the poet was woken by the sensation of something mounting
the bed.
On sitting up he was confronted by a shapeless black mass,
featureless apart from two red glowing eyes.
The apparition
rolled from the bed onto the floor and disappeared.
Lord Byron
also is said to have seen a mysterious column of white vapour
rising from the floor, which vanished without trace.
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