To sum up the character of the phenomena, it may be well to begin with those that are visual.

1.  The phantasm of the Rev. P. H——.  This was seen once only, and by Miss Langton, on the night of February 17th.  Of the identity no doubt can be felt, since Miss Moore and Miss Freer afterwards recognised the accuracy of the description on meeting the Rev. P. H——­ for the first time, in a crowded railway station on May 25th.  This is the only one of the apparitions which is undoubtedly that of a living person, and like many such apparitions, it occurred at an hour when it is probable that he was asleep.  B——­ is a place to which Father H——­’s thoughts were naturally and disagreeably drawn, and to which his attention had been called anew.  On awaking, he would probably have no recollection of the circumstances, or at the utmost would have an impression of having dreamt that he was there.

2.  The woman once seen by Miss Freer in the drawing-room.  She was older than Sarah N——­, who died at the age of twenty-seven, but of whose haunting of B——­ there is some tradition, but assisted by the parish register of marriages and births it is not difficult to form a guess at the identity of the phantasm.  As there is some uncertainty as to whether the person in question is still living, though it is probable that she is dead, the vision is mentioned here before those as to which there is no reason to doubt that they represent the dead.  There is reason to believe that the same apparition has been seen by former occupants of the house, and it is alleged to be that of a member of the S——­ family.

3.  The phantasm seen by Carter the housemaid, on the night of April 27th, who was described as “rather old,” may possibly have been identical with the above.

4.  The nun to whom was given the name of “Ishbel.”  This subject has been already discussed, and the suggestion thrown out that the phantasm was an erroneous mental picture of the late Rev. Mother Frances Helen, evolved from the imagination of a half-educated person who had never seen the lady in question, and knew little about her.  This figure was seen many times by Miss Freer and Miss Langton, twice by the Rev. Mr.  “Q.,” and probably by Madame Boisseaux, who unhappily died suddenly before the editors had an opportunity of asking her for exact information.  There were also earlier witnesses.  She was never seen elsewhere than in the glen, except once by Miss Langton, and on the one occasion when a Bishop was saying Mass in the house, and Miss Freer saw her outside the window just after the elevation of the chalice.  It was stated, however, by two separate witnesses, that a figure, probably the same, had been seen inside the house on at least one occasion, when, some years before Colonel Taylor’s tenancy, Mrs. S——­ was keeping her room, and a maid who was bringing up a tray met the figure on the stairs, and experienced such a start that she dropped the tray.