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This ghost story is contributed by a correspondent of an English maga zine: “Wycollar Hall, near Colne, was long the seat of the Conliffes of Eil ington. They were noted persons in their time, but evil days came, and their ancestral estates passed out of their hands. In the days of the com monwealth their loyalty cost them dear, and ultimately they retired to Wrvcollar with the remnant only of their once extensive property. About 1819 the last of the family passed away, and the hall is now a mass of ruins. Little but the antique fireplace remains entire, and even the room al luded to in the following legend can not now be identified. Tradition says that once every year specter ‘horse man Visits Wycollar Hall. He is at tired in the custume of the early Stuart period, and the trappings of his horse are of a most uncouth de scription, “On the evening of his visit the weather is always mild and tempes tuous. There is no moon to light the lonely roads, and the residents of the district do not venture out of their cottages. When the wind how is loud est the horseman can be heard dash ing up the road at full speed, and, after crossing the narrow bridge, he suddenly stops at the foor of the Hall. The rider then dismounts and makes his way up the broad oaken stairs into one of the rooms of the house. Dreadful screams, as from a woman, are then heard, which soon subside into groans. The horseman then makes his appearance at the door, at once mounts his steed, and gallops off by the road he came. “His body can be seen through by those who chance to be present: his horse appears to be wild with rage, and its nostrils stream with fire. The tradition is that one of the Cunlifves murdered his wife in that room, and that the special horseman is the ghost of the rourderes, who is doomed to pay an annual visit to the home of his victim. She is said to have predicted the extinction of the family, which according to the story, has been lter ally fulfilled.”
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Lincoln Daily Evening News
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Oct 19, 1907
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