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It was the talk of the taverns over the Christmas season.
18 oh 318 oh four Christmas is, of course, a great time for ghost stories and ghost storytelling, and it started to seem in Hammersmith as though the stories were rather coming to life.
In the winter of 1803, there were persistent stories of a strange robed figure perambulating around Hammersmith churchyard and in neighboring lanes.
People who claim to have seen the ghost described it in different ways.