Bewitching Holiday Home Oozes History ; Travel Treading in the Footsteps of Kings and Pilgrims, Jane Hall and Family Spent a Week to Remember in a Former Monastic Gatehouse That has Been Brought to Jacobean Life.

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SOME people claim to have fairies living at the bottom of their garden. Frankly, they've probably got a few kangaroos jumping around in the top paddock too.

Few would argue, however, if it was claimed a phalanx of phantoms lived in the backyard of what must rank as one of the UK's most beguiling holiday homes.

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Bewitching Holiday Home Oozes History ; Travel Treading in the Footsteps of Kings and Pilgrims, Jane Hall and Family Spent a Week to Remember in a Former Monastic Gatehouse That has Been Brought to Jacobean Life.

On a moonlit October night, my eight-year-old son and I are squeezed into two separate upstairs window embrasures looking at the ghostly silhouette of a ruined medieval cathedral.

It's deathly quiet; the only sounds the occasional hooting of an owl and the breeze rustling the few remaining leaves in a nearby stand of trees.

"Are there such things as ghosts?" whispers John David, nervously peering at the nearby stone edifice looming up out of the gloom.

Who knows. But if the dead do in...

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