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Cheltenham

There is a large house here, formerly a school and now divided into flats, where the ghost of a nun used to appear each New Year's Eve at 6.15 pm.

Miss Margot Vincent Smith, formerly of Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, was a nurse at the house when the building was used as a girls' school and she first saw the apparition in 1939 from an upstairs window.

She was shown the figure, some fifty yards from the house at the far end of the open play-ground, by the headmaster. As they watched, the figure moved backwards into a sitting posture, although no seat was visible.

It appeared to be wearing a white habit, complete with hood. The headmaster asked Miss Smith to remain watching while he descended to see whether the figure was also visible from a lower floor window, but a moment later it vanished.

Miss Smith, who was interviewed at Wandsworth Training College in 1951, stated that she also saw the apparition the following New Year's Eve, but on that ocasion the figure appeared at 7.15 pm - one hour later.

Because British Summer Time was in force the 'nun' was seen at the precise spot as the previous year.

On this occasion Miss Smith and the headmaster went to the edge of the playground. The figure seemed to be solid and looked as clearcut and distinct as when viewed from a distance.

There was bright moonlight. When the head-fc master directed a torch on to the figure, the light immediately went out and the torch could not be made to