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The Haunted Ruins of Woodchester Mansion
In the depths of Gloucestershire there lived a man, nay, a visionary! This man dared to dream that his egg-intolerant wife could enjoy a sweet dollop of custard on her pudding and he made that dream a reality. That man is not the main subject of this episode. But let’s hear it for experimental chemist Alfred Bird.
Just like Mrs. Bird was haunted (ironically) by eggs, the unfinished Woodchester Mansion is positively riddled with ghosts. At least, according to its own website and some ghost hunting groups…
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Credits:
The Loremen are Alasdair Beckett-King & James Shakeshaft.
Featured image from The Saturday Magazine, 19th Nov 1861.
Music from La Lettre De Manon Valse played by Megone’s Orchestra, 1905.