The rustling lady of Creslow

Printed under 23 June · Creslow Manor, Buckinghamshire

Lore and belief

The old manor house at Creslow, once held by the Knights Templars and Hospitallers, had a haunted chamber over its crypt and dungeon. The ghost was a lady, seldom seen but often heard by anyone who slept there, coming in by the Gothic door and walking the room in a rustling silk dress, sometimes slowly and sometimes as if in a desperate struggle. Servants would not go in without dread. Chambers tells of a guest about 1850 who scorned ghosts and slept there armed, and was found missing in the morning.

she is heard to walk about, sometimes in a gentle stately manner, apparently with a long silk train sweeping the floor

From Chambers's Book of Days, vol. 1, pp. 811-813. Read the original

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