October 2002
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| Newstead Abbey : Does the Goblin Friar stalk the
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The "Goblin Friar" was said to appear to the head
of the Byron family before any unhappy event...
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Shortly before his disastrous marriage to Anne Milbanke, Byron
encountered the Black Friar of Newstead Abbey.
This ghost, also known as the "Goblin Friar", was said to appear to
the head of the Byron family before any unhappy event. The poet recalls this meeting
in his poem "Don Juan".
Lord Byron had several supernatural experiences in a bedchamber known as the Rook
Cell.
When sleeping here the poet was woken by the sensation of something
mounting the bed.
On sitting up he was confronted by a shapeless black mass, featureless apart from
two red glowing eyes.
The apparition rolled from the bed onto the floor and disappeared.
Lord Byron also is said to have seen a mysterious column of
white vapour rising from the floor, which vanished without trace.
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