| Show REVISITS SCENE OF CRIME CHIME thrilling ghost story told by english magazine this ghost story is contributed by bv a correspondent of 0 on an english magazine wycellar Wy collar hall near colne was ions on the seat scat of 0 the Cunliff es of ballington ington they were noted persons in their time hut but evil days came and their ancestral estates passed out of their hands in the days of the commonwealth mon wealth their loyalty cost them dear and ultimately they retired to wycellar Wy collar wathla withla with 3 remnant only ot of their once extensive property about 1819 the last ot 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 alluded to in the following legend cannot be identified tradition says that once every year a specter horseman visits wycellar Wy collar hall ile he is attired in the costume of the early arly stuart period and the trappings of 0 ills his horse are of a most uncouth description on the evening ot of his visit the weather is always wild and tempestuous there is no moon to light the lonely roads and the residents ot of the distinct do not venture out ot of their cottages when the wind howls loud est the horseman can be beard dashing up the road at full speed and after crossing the narrow bridge lie he suddenly stops at the door of the hall ball the rider then dismounts and makes mabes his way up the broad oaken stairs into one of the rooms of the house dread ful screams screams ams as from a woman art arc then heard which soon subside inic groans the horseman then makes his appearance at the door at once mounts his steed and gallops gallons ote off b the road he came his body can be seen through by those who may chance to be present his horse appears to be wild nold with rage and its nostrils stream with fire the tradition is that one of the Cunliff es murdered his wife in that room and that the specter horseman is the ghost of the murderer who Is doomed to pay an annual visit to therome the home of his victim she is said to have predicted them the extinction of the family wh which leb accord ing to tile the story has been literally full fuli filled |
