| South Hill Park, a beautiful Italianate mansion erected in 1760 has an infamous reputation as a haunted house. There are constant unexplained bangings, wailings, rattling of keys, footsteps and cold rushes of air. Doors that always stick suddenly slam shut, lights come on by themselves and visitors have a sense that they are being watched. The main culprit is thought to be Major Rickman, the building's owner, who, having exhaustive debts, shot himself in the gun-room (now the gents loo). However, some witnesses have had the feeling their ghost was that of a playful child. Others of a middle-aged man on the stairs, unsure of Some say that a laundry maid was boiled to death during an accident in the kitchen. |
