Lost ghost story that made a man faint 238 years ago revealed
Jim Spencer discovered the letter while looking through a box of legal deeds (Picture: Rare Book Auctions)
A 239-year-old manuscript detailing an eerie ghost encounter which made a man ‘faint’ as been found in a box of old deeds.
The official papers describe aristocrat Francis Eld being visited by the spirit of his dead mother Catherine in the early hours of March 29, 1785.
The documents state that Mr Eld was in his young daughter’s bedroom in the when the apparition appeared.
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