The inhabitants of a village not half a dozen miles from Maidenhead are in a state of alarm at the mysterious doings of what is declared by them to be a ghostly visitor to a cottage on a well-known estate. Some two or three years ago there was, I am told, a tragedy in one of the rooms of the house, but of this subsequent occupants have been in ignorance, so their fears are not due to their own imaginings.
A short time ago, so I am informed, the man-servant and his wife were startled at night by curious noises, as of knocking at the doors and walls, and sometimes as of the turning of a door-handle. Nothing was to be seen, and there was nothing apparently to account for the mysterious and uncanny noises. The effect produced on the wife of the man was such as to cause nervous prostration, and, scarce as situations are, the couple were compelled to terminate their tenancy and leave the cottage and the service of the gentleman who had engaged them.
Maidenhead Advertiser, 11th April 1906.