The Ghost of the Banbury House
A long time ago, a strange man
broke into
Mr. Banbury's house and hid upstairs awaiting nightfall. In the
middle of the night, he crept into Mr. Banbury's room. And he
awoke Mr. Banbury with the barrel of a gun pointed at his face.
The robber ordered Mr. Banbury to give him all his money. Mr.
Banbury told the robber that he only had a few dollars at his house but
he had a few hundred at his office. The robber pondered Mr.
Banbury's offer, but he declined it and stated that he was going to take
one of his children instead. Mr. Banbury realized he had to take
other measures, so he told the robber he would write him a cheque.
The robber, being a complete fool, agreed to this arrangement. He
quickly grabbed the cheque out of Mr. Banbury's hand and told him not to
phone the police.
As the robber exited the scene,
Mr. Banbury a little shaken, phoned the police and gave them the play by
play of what just happened. A few days later, the police found the
man in the city trying to cash the cheque. They arrested him
immediately and took him to jail. At his trial, Mr. Banbury had to
testify against the robber. The evidence proved that the robber
was guilty and that he wasn't a Canadian citizen so he was then
deported. As he left the court room, he shouted to Mr. Banbury,
"I'm still a young man, and I'm going to come back and get you!"
The robber died and some believe his ghost haunts the Banbury house.
Others believe that it is Mr. Banbury's ghost coming back to take care
and protect it.
The
reason that people believe it's haunted is because guests staying in the
house have reported hearing footsteps late at night when there has been
no one else in the house. One staff personnel reported that a
coffee maker had mysteriously disappeared one day and the next day it
was returned to the proper spot. Cupboard doors were found open
when they shouldn't be and doors were found open when they had been
locked and no one knows how this had occurred. Also, one staff
member was taking an order at a table when she saw a man in a checkered
coat walk in through the front door. She answered that she would
be with him in a few seconds. When she went to look for him, he
was nowhere to be found and no one else had seen him.
