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_March 15th, Monday._--Miss Moore and I, both awake at the time,
heard a loud, vibrating noise about a quarter to six. Miss
Langton in No. 4 heard it also. The Colonel, who sleeps
downstairs, heard it as from the hall, and said he also felt the
vibration. Except for about three nights he has always slept in
the wing, where, during our tenancy, there have been no
phenomena.

_March 16th, Tuesday._--Miss Moore, Miss Langton, the Colonel,
and I, left B----. Miss Moore, Miss Langton, and I returning on
March 20th.

After leaving B---- Colonel Taylor wrote as follows to Lord
Bute:--

_March 19th, 1897._--"I arrived in London yesterday, after
having spent five weeks at B---- very pleasantly. I feel sure
that there _is_ a ghostly influence pervading the house, but I
am a little disappointed at the way in which it manifests
itself, for, up to the time I left, the nature of the
manifestations was such that, though it is satisfactory to me,
it would not be so, I think, to those who do not look at such
things from so favourable a position as I do.

"I hope a change may yet come, and things take place which one
might think would justify people in evacuating and forfeiting
their money as the H----s did; certainly nothing of this sort
happened while I was there.

"It is very interesting to note Miss Freer's experiences, but in
regard to those of others who have something to relate, it is
perhaps difficult to determine how much these statements should
be discounted for error of observation and self-suggestion. I
heard many noises in the night during my stay at B----, but they
were of much the same sort I have been accustomed to hear at a
similar time in other houses. I think that some of our witnesses
may have given them undue prominence, under the influence of
their own expectancy. The clairvoyant visions of 'Ishbel' in the
grounds are not of great evidential value for the scientific
world in general, and I think that any amount of 'voices' could
be read into the noises of the running stream, near where she is
seen, by those who 'wished to hear.' Still, there are some
objective noises which cannot be easily accounted for in an
ordinary way, and the three