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What horror stories have I got for you this Halloween month?\u00a0 I am often asked about ghosts in Knebworth House, and am happy \u2013 and relieved \u2013 to report that I, personally, have never seen one.\u00a0 But if ghosts are around, Knebworth House is, I\u2019m sure, where they\u2019d be found.\u00a0 We have the dust of five centuries swirling within our Tudor walls.\u00a0 They say that 75% of household dust is human skin.\u00a0 So I do literally live with and breathe my ancestors.\u00a0 I do also have to sleep in the house, so really it is better if I believe that I\u2019m not going to run into one of them on the way to the bathroom. \u00a0Of course the night is full of noises, and Knebworth House does creak, but as children we would assure ourselves that any noise was simply the flagpole rope blowing in the wind, or pigeons scratching the stucco.<\/p>\n

Nowadays I persuade myself that if I am going to meet a ghost it is much more likely to come from the future than from the past.\u00a0 \u2018There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.\u2019\u00a0 Maybe one day science will find a way of bending time, in the same way that a couple of hundred years ago it pulled electricity out of the air. \u00a0In the meantime I\u2019m happy to get a good night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n

However if you do want to commune with the spirits \u2013 or just to get dressed up \u2013 do join the Knebworth Gardens Halloween Trail in Half Term week.\u00a0 The details I\u2019m sure are on the back of the magazine, or on our website.\u00a0 You only get a prize though if you are a child\u2026 or a real ghost.<\/p>\n

Henry Lytton Cobbold
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