Archives are full of unexpected things. Century old secrets can be read in countless bundles of personal letters, and evidence for all sorts of events pieced together using various accounts and materials. Sealed with wax in an envelope, inscribed with something relating to the decoration of her London residence, were two folded papers in a very loose and rushed hand. Like many other very old houses Warwick Castle is said to be haunted, but for reasons that are doubtless perfectly satisfactory no ghost has ever honoured me with a visit.
My mother used to hear strange and uncanny noises; I never succeeded in doing as much as that. He then went onto describe how the castle and countess were often visited by an Archdeacon Colley, who used to hold seances in the Oak Bedroom now called the Kenilworth Bedroom , explaining that;.
He brought a medium from Birmingham, and I believe they raised, or saw, a little girl carrying flowers. I can only hope they were satisfied. Colley, a true eccentric who also used to hold seances in the rectory of Stockton Church, was seemingly notorious for often being carried around in a coffin with a glass top. This is where an individual is encouraged to sit and channel words from the spirit world onto paper without looking at what is being written.
Leave all to the future research. The Power at work is not that of the mortals in the Castle of here. The Spirit of my called Edward Jameson is one of these who now haunt the placeβ¦. The transcript seems to explain that this ghost had stolen something from the household in the past, and was assisted in his noise making by two other spirits.
Various questions are put to the ghost, and others ghostly servants appear too including a Sarah Kitchener and Richard Leigh. Anne lived in an age where there was a growing interest in the spiritual world, with seances being a popular pastime amongst many in 19th century Britain. I am heading to Warwick Castle for the first time this week.
