THE GREENLADY

BY DAVID MARTINEZ MADRID

CLASS 2C SECONDARY EDUCATION

OUTLINE: Introduction

Story: Thomas Adams.

Ghost story: The Green Lady.

The cases

Scientific explanations .

Supernatural explanations.

INTRODUCTION:

The green lady talks about a ghost, Elizabeth Adams’ spirit. According to the story Elizabeth was Thomas Adams’ widow, a man who was murdered in a business trip.

His wife never recovered from the shock for her husband’s death and every evening he walked around the church to pay her condolences.

After her husband’s death, two of their sons died (Johanne and Alice) and their other two sons grew older; she felt a hole in her life.

People say her ghost still walks around the church and in the Manor house, the house where she lived with her family.

STORY: THOMAS ADAMS

Thomas, the son of Robert Adams and Alice Deverill, who had three children: Agnes, John and Thomas .

He married his wife Elizabeth and they had four children.

Thomas was an important member of the London Butchers Livery Company; this company traded with animals like cows, pigs and sheep.

His dead was on Saturday, 17th 1626, when he was in London for a business or pleasure trip. He was murdered by a band of thieves, which was normal if you had much money.

He has a grave in the church of Swanbourne, the village where he lived.

Thomas’ grave

STORY: GREEN’S LADY LEGEND

Many people saw this spirit in Elizabeth’s house, where the woman lived her sad life.

There are many theories about the ghost. Most of them are scientific but others talk about the spirit and the soul of the members of the Adams family.

Most people who saw it were old people because the apparitions were in the Manor house during the 20th century when it was an Old People Home.

The area where people saw the Green Lady

CASES

Ackergill Tower: In the 15th century a family owned a castle near Thurso where a series of murders and revenge murders happened. After all these facts a widow saw a green lady in one of the towers.

Thainstone House Hotel: In the18th century the daughter of one of the owners died in a room of this hotel , exactly in room 406; this room was where the Green Lady appeared.

Newton Castle: In this castle near Scotland, Lady Jean Drummond’s relationship with one of the Blair’s of Ardblair failed. After that she dropped her to a loch, three days later the lake turned green. One day her father was walking in the castle and saw a Lady with a green dress.

Crathes Castle: This 16th century tower house is haunted by two ghosts, a Green Lady and another young woman. The Green Lady has not been seen for many years and tradition says that when she is seen it is an omen of death for a member of the Burnett family.

Scientific explanations

A pub near the church where a drunken person can have hallucinations and see a lady with a green dress.

During the 20th century the house where Elizabeth lived was an Old-people Home, where ill people lived. They had hallucinations with a lady with a green dress.

The people interested in the green lady go to the top of the hill. This is the reason why the hill has a micro climate on the top. This climate produces mist and creates a hazy place where a normal woman can look like a ghost.

There are three stone buildings in the area where the people heard strange sounds; the sound can be produce by the echo.

Supernatural explanations.

Thomas’ spirit is in the house and Elizabeth’s spirit is following it.

Elizabeth’s soul is in this place and, as in her life she didn’t have any good experiences, she can’t rest in peace.

Thomas and Elizabeth’s sons can’t rest in peace and their spirits are in the village.

Elizabeth’s ghost wants to torment her husband’s murderers’ descendants.

CONCLUSION

All the stories are in different times and places but they all have a common thing: they all talk about women who fell in love or their lovers were murdered, and after that they committed suicide or died, appearing in the place where they suffered.

The last place where the Green Lady was seen is in Sawbourne, where Elizabeth died.

This is a ghost that roams in the place where women suffered from love.