The Pilgrims trail is a long road leading to Canterbury which dates back to the medieval tradition of the pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral.  Several ghosts have been seen on this path including four pilgrims, a knight on horseback, a hooded monk and an old lady who is also seen in the woods collecting water from a stream in a bucket.  One of the pilgrims can sometimes be seen at the end of the field near my house leaning on the fence but whenever it is approached it disappears.       Story about a female ghost appearing on the spiral staircase in the main hall at around 3am each morning. She would appear at the top of the stairs and then walk down into the library where people had felt a presence. One girl told me how she had been studying late one night when she had heard footsteps coming towards the library - the corridors outside were stone and the library floor itself was wooden. The footsteps stopped outside the door and then resumed as though they were inside the room itself. She confessed she had to pinch herself a few times before fleeing the room in a state of panic. Other sighting of the ghost have included students who are ill in bed. They have reported waking up to see a figure in white at the bottom of their bed. Merely the figment of a fevered imagination you may say. I would have agreed.  After hearing all these stories, several friends of mine decided to research the history of the House. They discovered that it was taken over as a hospital base in the first world war. Among records of incidents which took place around that time, it was reported that a young nurse had fallen to her death while running down the main staircase during a bomb alert. Her uniform was white.
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