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Hickleton Hall and the Meynells #38

...ice - the ghost in the mirror' which can be found on my website).  Emily Meynell Ingram   Talking about ghosts, apparently Hickleton Hall was just as haunted as Hoar Cross Hall.  Perhaps they followed Emily when she left to get married!  Lord Halifax has written a 'ghost book' of true stories which include ghostly warnings from beyond the grave - even the current owners can hear people whispering as they walk about the house.  If you would like to read more on this, click on the book below.     Lord Halifax's ghost Book A collection of 'true' ghost stories collected by Lord Halifax, a Victorian English Viscount with an interest in the sup...

Alice - the ghost in the mirror

...that the ghost of Alice may have come with the mirror.  Ever since the mirror was installed in the Library people have seen a little girl running around the house.  There is also a bedroom upstairs called ‘The Alice room’ where guests have heard a child knocking on the door and running away! One evening a barman working in the Library looked into the mirror and saw a little girl standing behind him in the secret doorway.  When he turned around she was gone.  He went over to the doorway and looked through it into the next room but she was nowhere to be seen.  He assumed that she was a guest at the hotel and thought nothing of it – however, when he me...

Alice - the ghost in the mirror #38

...ALICE – THE ghost IN THE MIRROR:       Whilst researching the history of my former home, Hoar Cross Hall, I came across this fascinating story from author Graham Phillips who had visited the Hall to do some research into the story of Alice and the mirror that inspired Lewis Carroll. As many of my regular readers will know, Hoar Cross Hall is a very haunted house and so it was incredibly interesting to hear another theory on the ghost of the little girl who haunts the rooms and corridors. In 1865 Lewis Carroll wrote another story about Alice following on from ‘Alice in Wonderland’. It was called ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’. In this story Alic...

Things that go bump in the Night #3

...eries and ghosts but when you’re actually in the middle of it in real life, it’s a bit different!   The haunted attic corridor   My parents also heard noises from their bedroom. It sounded like a room full of people talking, like at a party. They couldn’t work out if it was birds nesting under the eaves so they slept in another room down the corridor to see if they still heard it – and sure enough, they did! What was going on? Had we disturbed some lost souls forever wandering in the attics? One night my mum was woken up by the sight of a little girl ‘floating’ over the bed. She said the girl was wearing a long nightdress and mop cap and s...

Alice - the ghost in the mirror #32

...Here is another ghost story for the Christmas season associated with Hoar Cross Hall. By an amazing co-incidence Lewis Carroll and Emily Meynell (who built the Hall) became acquainted when she was a child. This is their story - In 1865 Lewis Carroll wrote another story about Alice following on from ‘Alice in Wonderland’. It was called ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’. In this story Alice climbs onto the mantlepiece over the fireplace in her lounge and finds that she can climb through the mirror into another world which is reversed, just like a reflection. Once again, she encounters strange figures in a world dominated by a chess set and nursery rhyme c...

Alice - the ghost in the mirror #26

...that the ghost of Alice may have come with the mirror. Ever since the mirror was installed in the Library people have seen a little girl running around the house. There is also a bedroom upstairs called ‘The Alice room’ where guests have heard a child knocking on the door and running away! The 'Alice Room' on the left   One evening a barman working in the Library looked into the mirror and saw a little girl standing behind him in the secret doorway. When he turned around she was gone. He went over to the doorway and looked through it into the next room but she was nowhere to be seen. He assumed that she was a guest at the hotel and thought nothing o...