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/y9v9xzakA 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 ...