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I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64

Date of account: Late nineteenth-century compilation
Source: The Ghost World
Reference: The Ghost World · selected passage 210
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Allanbank, a seat of the Stuarts--a family of Scotch baronets, has long been haunted by 'Pearlin Jean,' one of the most remarkable ghosts in Scotland

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Allanbank, a seat of the Stuarts--a family of Scotch baronets, has long been haunted by 'Pearlin Jean,' one of the most remarkable ghosts in Scotland. On one occasion, seven ministers were called in to lay this restless spirit, but to no purpose. Creslow Manor House, Buckinghamshire, has its ghost, and Glamis Castle has its famous 'Haunted Room,' which, it is said, was walled up. At Hilton Castle there was the time-honoured 'Cold Lad,' which Surtees would lead us to suppose was one of the household spirits known as 'Brownies.' But, according to one local legend, in years gone by a servant-boy was ill-treated and kept shut up in a cupboard, and is supposed to have received the name of 'Cold Lad' from his condition when discovered. Sundry apparitions seem to have been connected with Newstead Abbey, one being that of 'Sir John Byron the Little, with the Great Beard,' who was wont to promenade the state apartments at night.

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