{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"What Does a House Remember?","description":"In tonight's dead letter, our listener’s family trades a rented place for an old Victorian villa tucked into the quiet border country between England and Wales. The previous owner had loved the house for more than half a century, and the neighbors were quick to say she'd have approved of the new arrivals. But the littlest member of the family keeps mentioning an old woman with white hair. We’ll get into faceless figures, formidable women who hold a home together, and an old plaque that quietly says exactly what this whole story is about.\n\nREFERENCE LINKS\n\nWilliam Morris's Bed and the Kelmscott Manor Poem — Society of Antiquaries of London\n (https://www.sal.org.uk/collections/explore-our-collections/collections-highlights/william-morriss-bed/)\nLucy M. Boston, the Green Knowe Books, and Memory in a House — Britannica\n (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucy-Boston)\nThe Manor at Hemingford Grey (the real Green Knowe)\n (https://www.greenknowe.co.uk/)\nFolklore of the Stiperstones and the Devil's Chair\n (https://stiperstones.co.uk/folklore/)\nThe Devil's Chair: The Story Behind the Shropshire Landmark — Shropshire Star\n (https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/minsterley/2022/09/29/the-devils-chair-the-unsettling-story-behind-an-eye-catching-shropshire-landmark/)\nThe White Lady of Ludlow Castle (Marion de la Bruyère) — Shropshire Star\n (https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2009/09/28/castle-ghost-part-of-25-year-study/)\nThe Phantom Funeral of Ratlinghope and Shropshire Ghost Stories — The History Press\n (https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/shropshire-ghost-stories/)\nShropshire Folklore, Wild Edric, and the Long Mynd Black Dog — Shropshire Star\n (https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/south-shropshire/2022/10/31/shropshire-storyteller-tells-of-the-countys-eerie-folklore-dating-back-to-the-norman-conquest/)\nWe're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!","author_name":"Astonishing Legends","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4322549-astonishing-legends","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43674527/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}