Some of you will have spent your time at St. Michael's living in the fear or hope of seeing the Rectory ghost. He was only seen when someone was on his or her own.
The ghost climbed the main stairway and entered the bathroom and then disappeared. He was supposed to have been a Victorian Rector of Ingoldisthorpe who suspected his wife of not being honourable. He was continuing to search for her to prove her infidelity even in the afterlife. Some versions included the fact that he carried a sharp knife to do her in!
The truth should now be told. This story, started by a small group of us, was intended as a joke that soon got picked up and passed on. By the time I left the school in 1961 none of us had admitted the stories true origin and, even if we had, I suspect that we would not have been believed. I remember returning to the school some years later and being asked by a boy who had joined the school after me if I had ever seen the ghost. I said I hadn't .
But still let the story continue. I still wish to remain anonymous and when my co-conspirators read this confession (as some of them will) I hope they will forgive me for coming out after all these years.
