Ghost #1 RED SOCKS of Broughton Hall #0005
RED SOCKS, ghost of Broughton Hall WIKI, Staffordshire
Relationship: Distant cousin.
He is unnamed in the folk stories but was probably a son of the Broughton family living there in the C17th.
The first Ghost story I ever learned about, the story of Red
Socks…
During the Civil War in England, he was the young son of a
Royalist household in Staffordshire. When Cromwellian soldiers came down the
drive, he leant out of the window and shouted ‘I’m for the King!’ and was
promptly shot for his defiance.
He staggered into the next room, where a pool of blood spilt
on his death.
Supposedly that blood stain comes and goes, despite repeated
scrubbing, and the ghost of a boy in bright red stockings has been seen over
the centuries, often playing games such as ‘hide and seek’ with the current house
owners and guests.
When I last visited, it was the home of an order of Nuns who
still pointed out the stain (if I remember, just off the main staircase).
Before that it was the home of the Broughton family and the subsequent Delves-Broughton
family; the Hall family from neighbouring Charnes early C20th ; a school
for evacuee children during World War II (including Sir Michael Heseltine WIKI), and
since all of that, the home of billionaire John Caudwell WIKI.
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