Emmanuel College

It seems that Emily had been in bed a while one evening, with the lamp in the street outside casting a pale light into the room. Something made her suddenly look towards the dressing-table and sure enough there was, she thought, a short figure standing at its right-hand side. The apparition resembled a figure with a bridal veil thrown over it, although the veil looked more grey than white in the dull light from the street lamp. Emily believed at first that it was a reflection but soon realised that the figure was not going anywhere and began to feel both 'creepy and crawly'. She quickly sat up in bed and gazed at the ghost, which appeared completely unmoved by this show of defiance, before she retreated beneath the bedclothes, fearful that the ghost might drag the covers off her so that it could look upon her. Having stayed under the covers almost to the point of suffocation, Emily tentatively reemerged to find that the ghost had disappeared.

Another member of the household, this time a young pageboy who had only been in Mrs Harris's employ for a few days, had no prior knowledge of the Emmanuel House Ghost before it appeared in his bedroom one night. Mrs Harris had even gone to the trouble of impressing upon the other servants the need to keep the young man in ignorance, but these instructions did not, naturally, extend to the ghost.

The boy woke one night to find the ghost in his room. His screams woke one of Mrs Harris's sons who, with the assistance of some medicinal brandy, was able to restore the boy to some degree of calmness. Unfortunately, the boy later had a fit, became more unwell and was sent from the house for good the following day. There is, of course, no surviving statement from him to clarify what he saw or where he saw it, except that it appears unlikely that he would have been occupying the same room in which Emily Harris had seen her veiled lady.