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The Haunted Lantern Room of Plas Mawr, Conway

The entrance of the house is only marked now by the coming and going of tourists who count the steps of the watchtower (52) or the windows (365). Some of the rooms are restored to the splendour they possessed during a winter night centuries ago, when a cold wind was blowing down the valley of Conway and Sir Robert Wynne was fighting in a foreign war.

Together with her three year old son, the lady of the house went again and again to the watchtower… but there still was nog sign of her husband. She offered her hand to her son, to guide him down the steep steps… and then she missed a step and screamed as she was falling and pulling her son down with her. A servant heard it and found his mistress and the boy badly injured at the foot of the stairs. They were moved into the Lantern Room. A doctor was sent for, but it was not the family doctor who arrived a few minutes later – the man had been called out for another patient -, but a young doctor who had not much experience. He wanted a servant to go searching for a doctor with greater experience, but the servants refused him to leave Plas Mawr. They locked the young doctor inside the Lantern Room and insisted that he should try and do something for the lady of the house and the child.

They waited for hours, until there was this hammering on the main door. Sir Robert Wynne had arrived… to find his wife, his son and the baby in the Lantern Room, all of them stone cold. Sir Robert went looking for the young doctor, but he couldn’t find him and because there were no windows through which he could have escaped, Sir Robert was convinced he must be hiding somewhere in the Lantern Room. He locked the door again and all night long, the servants could hem hear cursing as he searched for the doctor.

Morning came and the servants could hear their master no longer pacing the Lantern Room. It had become strangely silent there… They opened the door with a second key and found their master on the floor; he had plunged a dagger into his own throat.

It remained a mystery what had happened to the young doctor, who was never seen again in Plas Mawr. Sir Robert, on the contrary, has been seen often in Plas Mawr… And at night you can still hear him pacing the floor of the Lantern Room…

The Haunted Rooms of Nanteos Mansion

The Holy Grail was once brought to this now privately owned hotel near Aberystwyth, in the unspoilt countryside of Mid Wales. The Cup stayed here for centuries; people were attracted to it because they believed the Holy Grail had healing powers… and nibbed off much of it, hoping for a miracle. Today, the Holy Cup is not at Nanteas anymore, but there are still ghosts to be found in the many rooms of the mansion.

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The Pink Room

The Jewel Lady is haunting the Pink Room. She once was dearly loved by her husband and showerd with jewels. Because she could not bear to be parted from them, she left her death bed to hid her treasures. Somewhere in her after-life, she must have forgotten where she has hidden her jewellery… And so, shrouded in her long flowing 18th century gown, you still can meet her while she is searching her treasures.

The Music Room

Gruffydd Evans played beautiful on the harp, every Christmas, in the Music Room… and this for 69 hears! After he died at the age of 92, many have heard him play his beloved harp, deep in the woods of Nanteos or in this Music Room, where Richard Wagner once worked at his Parsifal opera.

The Unknown Ghost of the Pink Dressing Room

In the 1800’s a young nursery maid had to sleep in the Pink Dressing Room. One night she was awakened by a figure leaning over her. She screamed, and the apparition walked away… straight through the closed door. This Unknown Ghost was also seen by two Americans staying at Nanteos in the 1920’s.

The Lady of the Silver Vault Room

One evening the house was full of guests. On the stairs, an army officer met a strikingly beautiful woman in an evening dress, holding a candle. The man thought she was one of the guests, he bowed and bade her good evening, but the lady did not answer: as if he had not been there, she carried on down the stairs. Later that evening, the army officer asked if anyone had seen the Lady with the Candle. He was told never to speak of her again, or there would be a death in the family. That night, the Lord of Nanteos died… and the strange candle the lady had carried was found in a dusty shelf corner of the Silver Vault Room.

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The Ghost of the Raglan Castle Library

Some visitors of Raglan Castle (South-Wales) have seen “fleeting glimpses of a bardic figure”, beckoning to them from the place where once the library was situated. It’s the ghost of the castle’s librarian, who – during the Civil War – hid some valuable books and manuscripts in a secreat tunnel beneath Raglan. The magnificent library indeed was destructed, nobody knows what happened to the librarian, but his guardian spirit still watches over the literary treasures he has hidden. The Ghost of the Library was last seen in the summer of 2001. A girl on a school trip came running from the castle, ashen-faced… She had seen the ghostly librarian gesturing to her from a dimly lit corner…

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