Among the many who supposedly saw her was Sir Walter Farquhar, a physician of the late eighteenth century. While at Berry Pomeroy attending the ailing wife of the castles steward, Sir Walter caught a glimpse of the remarkable young woman, who was wringing her hands in obvious distress. She started up a stairway then stopped and turned briefly toward the doctor. He saw her very clearly in a light streaming through a stained-glass window before she had vanished into one of the upper rooms.
The next day, Sir Walter asked the steward who the beautiful lady that he had seen on the staircase was. To the doctor's surprise, the man cried out that he was sure her visit meant that his wife was going to die. He related how Margaret had killed a child in the room above the staircase and how her ghost has always preceeded the deaths of castle inmates ever since, including that of his own son. The doctor assured him that his wife was far from dying and in fact was doing much better. Nevertheless, the steward would not be comforted. His wife then died at noon that very same day.
