The Lyttelton Ghost Story – George Stanton
George Stanton was one of the founding fathers of the Aurum Solis. The following short ghost story was told to him in 1886 by Mr Westcote. Stanton’s recollection of the story came into my possession from the estate of William Corbett, Head of the Stonehenge Lodge 667 of the Order of Druids. The l odge held its meetings in the Golden Lion Inn, Worcester Street, Bromsgrove , in the West of England in the 1880s. “On Thursday, the 25th of November, 1779, Thomas Lord Lyttelton, when he came to breakfast, declared to Mrs. Flood (originally a Miss Amphlett), wife of Frederick Flood, Esq., and to the three Miss Amphletts, who were lodged in his house in Hill Street, London, (where he then also was), that he had had a most extraordinary dream the night before. He said he thought he was in a room which a bird flew into, which appearance was suddenly changed into that of a woman dressed in white, who bade him prepare to die; to which he answered, "I hope not soon : not in two mont...