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We visited the Haunted house in Stonegate. We didn’t even know that this was there last time we went. I have to say that the house is indeed strange: full of atmosphere. The narrative starts in the first room and follows you though the house to the attics, to the depths of the cellar.

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There are certainly some interesting stories told about the house. Some of this is acted out in the narrative. I think that this spoils the experience a little. The atmosphere itself is creepy enough, it doesn’t really need some of the ‘props’.

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The scariest room of all to me is the Seance room . The biggest round table I have ever seen in my life, sits there, taking nearly all the room up. In the centre is a crystal ball. Dotted around are ouija boards! Needless to say, I did NOT have a go….

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Here’s a strange thing. Before going into the haunted house, that morning I had gone into this fantastic Oxfam bookshop. I never knew there were such things! This one was great, full of interesting books at very good prices. A Paperback caught my eye and I was in two minds to buy it. I didn’t. I decided I would get it on the way back to the hotel. The book was ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy’ by Lawrence Sterne, a book I had never read before. In the first room of the haunted house, the narrative told a brief history of the house and said that it used to be (amongst other things) a printers and that ‘Tristram Shandy’ had been published there….. Of course I rushed back and bought it then!

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The haunted house is well worth a visit. I thought it was pretty scarey. Others have been and felt nothing. Apparently, the house was also a Spiritualist meeting place too…….
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