The ghost stories of Treasurer’s House

Commonly reported experiences

• A cat café?

  In the basement where the café now is, there are regular sightings of a cat. This is the most frequently commented unexplained vision. The cat clearly looks real, so much so, some visitors have questioned if it is ideal to be in the area from a hygiene perspective.

  The café doesn't have a cat, or access where one could get in without being spotted.

• Mysterious moments

  Over the years there have been many strange things that have happened. Often it's the house staff and volunteers who find these moments, knowing full well the space wasn't like that when they locked up the night before. Everything from all the clocks stopping at the same time - not broken - just stopped, to chairs moving to the middle of the room.

  Others mention cold blasts, mists, moving curtains and one reports once feeling a firm push in the back, as though to get her off a chair. Recently a member of the team says she often senses a male servant in the old kitchen cleaning near the range.

• Dog sightings

  Within two weeks in 2016, two separate visitors reported seeing "a dog scampering in the Blue Drawing Room and how it had gone behind some chairs". Whilst a week earlier "small dog running around and round via the Court Room and the Staircase Hall". Another sighting was even more specific when a visitor asked where the black terrier went? Insistent he'd just seen it run diagonally across the Great Hall.

• Two children

  Children have been reported at least twice on separate occasions, however who they saw didn't match up. First, two girls were playing marbles in the Great Hall by the door, only one visitor could see but she was adamant at the sight before her. Another reported sighting mentioned a boy and a girl running around the Great Hall and up the stairs.

• Promises from the past

  Mr Green, the last owner, threatened to haunt the house if furniture moved and anything not to his liking occurred. Many times a strong smell of cigar smoke has been attributed to the temporary return of Mr Green, checking on his home as he passes through.

  It is reported to appear, and then vanish just as quickly. Sometimes in the middle of a room and with no obvious reason nearby.

• The grey lady

  Another popular mention is the lady spotted on many chairs around the house. Often she's seen by teenagers and younger visitors. On several occasions children have climbed onto the historic chair in the tapestry room. It's only when their adults tell them to get down, many have a similar response: "the lady told me to".

  Another time, housekeeping were vacuuming when the machine inexplicably stopped working, upon checking it, the staff member was met with a grey lady with her finger on her lips saying ssshhh.