Voices have been heard by many, in the Great Hall. - Footsteps and coughing noises have been heard in the Long Gallery. - There is a tree in the grounds where, legend has it, the friends and lover of Dorothy Southworth were brutally murdered. Some say the ghostly emanations centre around this. In the last century, when the turnpike road was being built, three human skeletons were discovered in a shallow grave by the wall.