Hester, an elderly nurse, recounts a chilling experience from her youth. She was the nurse to a little girl called Rosamond. After Rosamond’s parents died, Hester took her to live at Furnivall Manor, a grand but eerie old house in Northumberland, owned by the elderly Miss Furnivall. And then mysterious things begin to happen\u2026 A typical Victorian ghost story that shows how cruelty and secrecy can haunt future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“She said, that she had fancied that she should like to go to Dorothy, for that both the old ladies were asleep, and it was very dull in the drawing-room; and that, as she was going through the west lobby, she saw the snow through the high window falling–falling–soft and steady; but she wanted to see it lying pretty and white on the ground; so she made her way into the great hall: and then, going to the window, she saw it bright and soft upon the drive; but while she stood there, she saw a little girl, not so old as she was, “but so pretty,” said my darling; “and this little girl beckoned to me to come out; and oh, she was so pretty and so sweet, I could not choose but go.” And then this other little girl had taken her by the hand, and side by side the two had gone round the east corner.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hester, an elderly nurse, recounts a chilling experience from her youth. She was the nurse to a little girl called Rosamond. After Rosamond’s parents died, Hester took her to live at Furnivall Manor, a grand but eerie old house in Northumberland, owned by the elderly Miss Furnivall. And then mysterious things begin to happen\u2026 A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[270,280,277,279],"tags":[56,132,281],"class_list":["post-18079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2025","category-chalenge-abc-2024-2025-prenom","category-challenge-riquiqui-2025","category-year-of-reading-2025","tag-death","tag-fear","tag-ghost"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ales-krivec-1aWTkXlIl6Q-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18095,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions\/18095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}