News Flash!
STUDLEY Park House's reputation for being haunted has deepened after workmen responsible for repairing the old house made a disturbing discovery.
The men (from Affordable Roofing and Guttering) have been busy replacing parts of the iron roof and repairing the slate to make the 120-year-old Victorian mansion watertight. But it's the interior that has had them buzzing after they stumbled on a hangman's noose dangling from the home's steeple roof.
The haunting theories were spawned by several tragic incidents that occurred on the site like the drowning of a 14-year-old boy in the property's dam in 1909 and the death in 1939 of the son of then-owner Arthur Gregory, a sales manager for Twentieth Century Fox Australia. Mr Gregory's son reportedly died in the home's theatrette from appendicitis.
Rod Nash, director of Affordable Roofing, the company repairing the roof, said he had no doubt the house was haunted. Despite uncovering the hangman's noose, Mr Nash said he was keen to visit the house at night.
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Excerpt taken from the Camden Advertiser. |