From Glossop to Disley and Thereabout.
By Oliver Fizzwig.
… Farther on my companion pointed out to me a neat white farmhouse by the road side, and known as Hagg Bank. Here many years ago the celebrated “Hagg Bank Boggart” held its revels to the great dismay of nearly the whole neighbourhood. Its presence was indicated by a constant knocking which caused great and wide-spread alarm, and baffled the most strict investigation.
Crowds of persons going to their work in the early morning were wont to wait here from fear and lack of courage to pass, until their numbers became such as to assure their courage, and enable them to pass with safety the haunted place.
As the nuisance became greater and greater each day, and the mystery more dark and unfathomable, a fortune teller, my companion informed me, was consulted and quieted the fears of the inmates by assuring them that it had no power to injure them at all, but originated out of the hatred entertained towards them by a neighbour, and would never cease until his death which would occur at the hour of six in the morning.
Time rolled past, and at the specified hour a neighbour died, and with his death the notorious Hagg Bank Boggart ceased.
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Glossop Record, 15th December 1866.