What do YOU think is the secret of the Blue Lady?

NO-ONE believes in ghosts. Do they? Ask people who have lived in one of the oldest houses in Wethersfield and you could well change your mind.
The Blue Lady has become part of the folklore of the village. As the tale goes an unmarried servant girl in Victorian times was in labour. It was going to be a difficult birth and the girl was in agony. A doctor was sent for but, such was the morality of the time, he wouldn’t have anything to do with bringing an illegitimate baby into the world. Mother and baby both died.
Sightings of the Blue Lady have been made by several later residents in the house, most of whom have been young women.
One account from recent years ran: “One of my sisters was sleeping in the room where you can look over the top of the wall from the long passage with the big fireplace in it. That’s where our lady ghost was.

“My sister said she saw her come in. She was tall and she got hold of my sister’s clothes and she lifted them up and dropped them down again and then ‘she floated out.’
“I never saw her but in the big bedroom on the other side of the passage if you were there you would feel a hand going across your shoulder.
She claimed to have seen a woman in a dark dress with a white bib standing in the doorway watching her
  "And the lady who used to do the housework for me said she felt it.” A young girl who lived there later, but who hadn’t been told anything about the ghost stories, said to her younger sister: ‘Don’t keep putting your hands on my face, you are so cold in the mornings.” Her sister said crossly ‘I haven’t touched you!’ On another occasion the girls refused to go into the bathroom, claiming there was a lady in a blue dress there.Their father never saw the ghost but he did have one curious experience. Sitting in his armchair resting, he saw a cat disappear through the floor in front of him. Which was strange because (a) the family didn’t have a cat and (b) there was no hole in the floor.
It was sometime after this that an expert in ancient buildings looking round the house casually remarked that “the staircase hasn’t always been where it is now, you know. It was over there.” He pointed to the exact spot where the cat had disappeared.
Yet another resident, a young woman, turned from preparing a meal in the kitchen and screamed. She claimed to have seen a woman in a dark dress with a white bib standing watching her from the doorway.
Other reports have included hearing a baby crying in the house when no child was there and furious nighttime knocking on a wall when an old doorway was filled in.
Could a person’s intense emotions during a traumatic experience, such as the Victorian servant girl went through, actually imprint their energy into the fabric of a building? Like messages on a tape-recorder. And could they be ‘played back’ through the minds of other impressionable young women? It’s a theory. .
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