Muncaster Castle - Ghosts
Archaeologist Clifford Jones has been investigating the Roman significance of the grounds around Muncaster Castle. He believes his excavations may change the Hadrianic boundaries of the of the area and reveal that Cumbria played a much more significant role in the Roman Empire than was previously thought.
Clifford's excavations may not only have unearthed a physical Roman presence in the area, they may also have disturbed the dead. Clifford had been staying in the castle towers one night when he heard someone chopping wood. Only he and the mistress of the house were in the castle. Clifford went down the stairs to the court yard, all the time hearing the chopping noise, but when he got there he he was alone. "Please stop the noise," he said. And it stopped.
Clifford ran back up the stairs. The first room he went into was the toilet. As he entered the light bulb blew. He went back out on to the landing and the light bulb blew there. He then went into the lounge and the bulbs there blew too. He was so disturbed by what had happened that he left the castle for three days before getting the courage to return.
Mary Bragg is one of Muncaster's less well known ghosts, who met with a violent and untimely end in 1805. Mary a housekeeper in Ravenglass, was in love with the footman at Muncaster Castle. Unfortunately for Mary, so was one of the housemaids, and she was not keen on competition. It is said that the house maid plotted to rid herself of this love rival, and she may have been ultimately responsible for Mary's death.
Mary Bragg's mother was the last person to see her alive after her death she told how two men called, claiming her lover was seriously ill. Mary told her mum that the two men were taking her to his bedside, she was never seen alive again.
Mary's body was found some weeks later, floating in the River Esk, it was hardly recognizable because of the horrendous injuries. The body had also been partially eaten by eels, the coroner could not say for certain how she died and no one was charged with her murder.
The ghost of Mary Bragg can often be seen wandering the grounds of the Castle and along the local roads. Mary's ghost is often dressed in white her form however varies sometimes a misty figure, other witnesses have reported a solid form, or a darting figure sometimes jumping out in front of cars before vanishing.
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