Pluckly's Ghosts Continued

On station road in Pluckley is a property called Greystones, a monk is said to haunt the buildings grounds. The monk is said to have lived in Tudor times, and is reputed to have fallen in love with the daughter of a neighboring property. The affair was discovered by the girl's father and he forbade his daughter to see her lover again. The lady so distressed at not being able to be with her lover drank a poisonous cocktail and died. The monk sank into a state of melancholy and bitterness, his only solace was to walk the green fields and leafy lanes where they had enjoyed so many romantic interludes together. As the years passed, he sank deeper into depression, pining for his dead lover, and finally died of a broken heart. His ghost, however, continues to wander the neighborhood, and was last seen in 1989 by an American journalist who glimpsed the unmistakable brown-robed figure drifting behind the house.

In the Blacksmith's Forge Tea Room two ghosts have made their presence known. The building's origins go back to the 14th century, when it housed a blacksmith's forge. It then became an alehouse, today it is now a tea room run by Gloria Atkins, who shares her home with at least two ghosts. One is a cavalier whose apparition has been seen by several members of the family striding in and out of the upstairs rooms. The second ghost is that of a Tudor maid, who stands by /the fireplace slowly turning the spit.

Gloria has experienced plenty of paranormal activity, such as a line of hanging mugs suddenly clinking together as though someone had just walked by and run a finger along them. On a cold November afternoon in 1997, as she was working in the kitchen, she heard the front door open and close. This was followed by the sound of a chair being moved away from a table. Picking up her notepad, she went to take the customer's order only to find that the tea room was empty. She could see that a chair had been moved back from the table, but there was nobody in the building.

Maltman's Hill is haunted by a phantom horse drawn coach. This carrige has been seen at various places in and around the village. One October a lady was lady driving home from babysitting her granddaughter, just after midnight. At Pinnocks Crossroads she could see a coach being pulled by horses with light coming from its windows she waited for the carrige to pass then continued her journey amased at hwatt she had witnessed.

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