Where a ghost walks.
French house reported to be haunted.
The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” writes: – Superstition dies hard in Brittany, but one fraction of it, or someone connected with it, seems very likely to die shortly. At Pluguffan, near Quimper, is an old chateau which is generally reputed to be haunted.
It is the house in which the Chouan leader Vergier de Kernorlay lived in 1815, and it is generally believed in the district that his shade returns quite frequently at night to his old domain.
He is apparently a troublesome ghost, for these visits are invariably accompanied by a good deal of noise and disturbance of furniture.
On several occasions priests have been called in to exorcise the spirit, but each of such visits has been followed by more noise than ever. The former owners of the place have now left it in despair, putting in their stead a hard-headed tenant, who has declared his intention of sleeping with a loaded shotgun and firing on the first mysterious visitor who disturbs his slumbers. One curious thing about the apparition is that it seems to have been seen by many people, whose description of it tally exactly with those of the Chouan leader.
Shields Daily News, 5th March 1929.