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Updated: August 18, 2024
Within a few days the Mompesson family at Tedworth began to be annoyed at night by strange noises or drummings on the roofs. All the phenomena and manifestations which we associate with a modern haunted-house story were observed by this alarmed family of the seventeenth century.
As we have seen, there was little that was comforting in the life after death as conceived by the old pagan religions, while in medieval times the horrors of hell were painted in the most lurid colours, and were emphasized more than the joys of heaven. In a letter to Sura the younger Pliny gives us what may be taken as a prototype of all later haunted-house stories.
He was the old gardener, an ancient servant of the family that once lived there, and a person in whom the family reposed implicit confidence. "Having had some inkling of this wonderful place, and having a few days to spare before going to London to fulfil an engagement at the Surry Theatre, I thought I would probe this haunted-house story to the bottom.
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