Wishing you all a happy and suitably spooky (reading) Halloween - by Hywela Lyn
Autumn - time of mellow fruitfulness etc. Well, it was officially the end of British summertime at the weekend. What summertime? I hear you ask. Good question, it was a bit damp and miserable for the most part wasn't it? And the promised 'Indian Summer'failed to materialise. However, in a couple of days it will be Halloween, so I thought I'd share some ghost stories. Nanteos Mansion One of my favourite places in all the world is Nanteos Mansion, near where I used to live, in Wales. I used to keep my horses at the stables and spent many a happy hour soaking up the atmosphere of this historic house, built in 1738. The Mansion has its share of ghosts and an interesting history. Late at night the stables would ring with unearthly screeches, like souls in torment. Actually it was nothing more sinister than a colony of screech owls nesting nearby. (Or so I was told.) The owner of the stables, which, when I was there, had been sold as a separate entity from...