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Abbas Hall is located just a few miles from Borley Rectory. Events there were investigated by ghost-hunter Philip Paul who worked with the occupant, Yvonne Spalding. Her job was to look after the hall for the owner, a solicitor, in exchange for which she was allowed to live there rent free. She also tended a herd of Jersey cattle kept on the nearby estate of Lord Abinger. Spalding reported hearing footsteps and heavy dragging noises in the bedrooms upstairs though she could find no explanation for these sounds. Lord Abinger apparently told her he had seen the face of an old woman looking in through the windows; when he and Yvonne Spalding went to investigate no one could be found outside. On another occasion Yvonne was alone in the house in the evening, reading in the living room, when she heard the sound of the kitchen-door latch. Her dachshund dog and Siamese cat both stared at the door and, their heads moving in unison, appeared to be watching something moving across to the other door that opened on to the stairway. That latch then also clicked. Some seconds later she heard the heavy dragging footsteps in the bedroom above. Uncomfortable to say the least, she took the dog and cat and spent the night with a friend.
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Place: Suffolk, UK Source: Phillip Paul Date: 20th C |