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In July 1897, Miss Agnew and Miss Rosetti went to stay with Maisie Packenham and family, recently returned from America, at their new home, LittleDean Hall, reputedly the most haunted house in Britain.
They discovered a secret passage which had the letters C and R carved in a panel, and heard about the murder of Charles Pyrke in 1744 by his servant for misusing the boys sister

LittleDean Hall, Gloucestershire

Some rooms in the house were ice cold, in the Rose room sounds of weeping permeated and elsewhere the purring of a cat was heard. After a night of keeping watch their only solid evidence of ghostly happenings despite all manner of strange incidents, was a photograph of a young man in C18th dress holding a cat, taken and developed in the cellars by Miss Rosetti, which bore a startling resemblance to Athena's fiancée, Gaston le Roux.

Left to Right : Miss Emerald, Mr. Pitt Rivers,
Professor Petrie, Miss Athena, Mr. Gaston
Le Roux at Newstead Abbey

On the 7th of August 1897, Professor Petrie invited friends and acquaintances to join him for a picnic and outdoors performance of “The Water Babies” at Newstead Abbey. A splendid repast was provided by the cooks and a local cricket team proceeded to play on the green. After the feast the party took a turn around the late Lord Byron's most beautiful gardens.

The players were much admired and Lord Brocket was moved to write a few lines of verse which he later recited at the professors residence.

The professor told how his dig and experiments had been bizarrely disturbed at Hobhurst House Barrows, he suspected sabotage, and Athena told of the girls adventures at Little Dean Hall.

Miss Hunter & Professor
Petrie at The Pump Rooms

The Company at The Theater

Raj trifle Enjoyed by All

On the 11th of September 1897, Lord Brocket invited friends to his Cheltenham residence. Saturday afternoon, the weather being fine, the party tasted the waters at the pumprooms. They were generally agreed not to be as pleasant as those in Buxton...

In the evening the party proceeded to the theater, the performance was one of Oscar Wilde's finest, “The Importance of being Ernest” a most amusing piece.

Dinner was served afterwards at Artie’s house with a special curry for the Major and raj trifle. Artie and Mr. Pitt Rivers ritually “Mummified” Gaston with assorted artifacts brought back from Egypt and two unusual fans bought in London, these were recognized by Athena as belonging to her friend Katherine, now strangely missing.

How the ladies laughed when Gaston finally rose from the grave all covered in bandages!

The Mummification of Gaston

Breakfast at Lord Brackets Apartments

The Company at Bellas Knapp Barrow

An expedition was mounted on Sunday, after Breakfast, to Bellas Knapp Barrow. The professor pointed out that it unusually faced N S, some measurements were taken and a young man Pullenbury popped up and seemed eager to join the party, no one knew him and Artie was deeply suspicious after catching him out in a lie, he then found a wallet belonging to Pullenbury with a strange message referring to “Enoch” and a sigil.

Letter to H P Burry Esq. from FFJ

A few weeks later the barrow was purchased on behalf of the government, Arties flat was burgled and two fans were stolen.

That winter the young ladies went to Paris to see the collections, whilst there they went out for the day to the country, walking in the forest they were pursued by wolves, missed the stage coach back, stayed out all night and, finally, Athena was bitten by a bat ( not scratched by her broach pin at all) during the night.

Gaston had adventures in America, including narrow escapes from red Indians, and met with a strange lady heavily veiled and clad all in black who told him wondrous stories.

Dr Staunton & Professor
Petrie with Spectral Container

Our Civil War Couple?

On the 27th November, Viscount Buffington invited the company to Skipton Castle for a ghost watch. On their arrival Buffy showed everyone over the castle recounting tales of the civil war and ghosts galore, particularly James Ravenwood and his lost love parted by suicide after Cromwell’s army gained the castle. All were fortified by soup and cake provided by the Reverend Michaels.

The Company at Skipton Castle, Viscount Buffingtons Address

The watch began and the scientists of the party set up an ingenious ghost detecting device in an upper room.

Meanwhile the ladies glimpsed a dark figure of a woman who dropped a glove, Mr. Pitt Rivers and Maisie saw a blue haired lady with glittery fingerprints, Artie was frightened by a door, strange voices and sounds were heard and the professor found a coin from the civil war. Finally sleep beckoned and all collapsed, guarded by Algy...

Algy & Cake

Everything looked much less phantasmogorical in the daylight but the professor confessed he felt he had been followed over the past weeks, Athena claimed Gaston had been neglecting her and Elaine discovered the coin matched one given her by her aunt, a nun in Shrewsbury.

Lochnaw Castle

Christmas and New Year 1897
Miss Athena invited the girls to Lochnaw for the festive season and a glorious time was had by all. The Reverend spent much time in the study of Enochian Script and sigils with the kind assistance of Miss Emerald and took tea with Dr. Richard Laurence; a man of healthy appetite who translated The Book of Enoch.

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