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Episode 145: Timeless Terrors: The Ghosts of Christmas Past

This week on 4 Ever Paranormal, Dr. Bill and Deb return to a forgotten Christmas tradition. Ghost stories told by firelight. From the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall and the lost bride of Bramshill House to the headless rider of Roos Hall and Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville’s haunted ride, these legends have drifted through centuries of English winter nights. Eerie, timeless, and strangely comforting, they…

Episode 145: Timeless Terrors: The Ghosts of Christmas Past

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The mistletoe bride

The Legend of the Mistletoe Bough is a tale which has been associated with many mansions and stately homes in England,

It tells a story of a new bride, either playing a game of hide-and-seek or in other counts of the story, trying to get away from the crowd during her wedding breakfast; She hides in a chest in an attic and is unable to escape, never to be discovered by her family and friends. She either suffocates or dies of thirst. Her bones are found many years later in the locked chest as a skeleton in a wedding dress.

The popularity of the tale was greatly increased when it appeared as a song in the 1830s entitled 'The Mistletoe Bough' written by T. H. Bayly and Sir Henry Bishop.

The song proved very popular. In 1859, its chanting was referred to as a national occurrence at Christmas in English households, and by 1862 the song was referred to as 'one of the most popular songs ever written', 'which must be known by heart by many readers’.