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As my late father in law used to say, “it’s not the dead you need worry about but the living”?
Mick

Sad to hear so many doubting voices on this forum. There is plenty of evidence for supernatural contact from beyond the grave. See below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC_Nna17sh0

Ahhh Bill, not even in the Spoooky Echo Observatory ?

I do hope the spirit has good literary taste. It could be quite an insult if it's hurling a Barbara Cartland, say, or Boyzone biography.

Very good point!

If there is a spooky presence, I think of Nathanial 'Piggy-Tail' Davison as a possible candidate ...

Bill writes ...

Miss Davison's late father (or grandfather, I can't recall which exactly), was known to locals as 'Piggy-Tail' Davison, and was apparently a terrible, nasty man. His ghost is reputed to haunt Haddlesey House. It seemed to me that Miss Davison's ghost would have equal claims to the same premises.

... and ...

Jan, my wife at the time, later said she didn't share my feelings for the place. She found it spooky, perhaps primed by the stories of Piggy-Tail Davison, but I never once felt spooked by the place, only a tremendous affinity with it.

Captain Wayman [Way-Man] might be a possible candidate for a friendly presence ...

Then, during the second world war, it was requisitioned by the British Army for use as a rehabilitation centre for wounded Army officers. One of the officers recovering from his wartime injuries here was a 'Captain Wayman.' He loved both the location and the house and, once the war had ended, returned to buy it for himself and the woman he was about to marry. In civilian life, Captain Wayman was a wealthy man and he and his new wife set to renovating the old place, now further damaged from its wartime use. He retained the building's imposing height but transformed the interior from three floors to two, making the ceilings of the rooms much higher.

Source: https://tinyurl.com/y9v9xzak

A scene where translucent figures of Captain Wayman and Nathanial Davison encounter one another's flickering forms along a starlit Haddlesey plane .

Captain Wayman says, "You there ... be gone" and Davison, startled, smirks and then slowly bows -- low and dramatically -- holding a pointy-and-plumed hat in gloved hand ... he flickers away ... vanishing into dust and light ...

Sounds like a concept Alec. Get writing.

Throw in some Masons, obscure religious references, a bunch of place names, a couple of real names, English, old English and spell things funny. Use an accent. Lots of keyboards with sharp guitar over notes.