In March 1936, the South Yorkshire Times newspaper reported that the Firbeck Hall Ghost had made a return. The apparition, seemingly dressed in a green cloak, was said to be bothering the residents of the newly opened Country Club at the site with knockings, movements and wails.
The story behind the Green Woman of Firbeck went as follows - in the Civil War, a beautiful young woman who lived at the Hall with her Royalist family, fell in love with a Cromwellian officer who lived nearby. They would meet in secret in the woods at night, and thought that they were getting away with it. However, one night, the woman's brother was there waiting for them and thrust his sword into the Cromwellian officer. In her grief, the woman threw herself into the pond - her body was recovered the next day, covered in slime and pondweed which created what looked like a green gown.
In her 1930s incarnation, she was said to be "upsetting the minds of the club servants." But isn't it interesting how, at a time of such obsession with green, this was when she made her comeback appearance...it's almost as if minds were open and ready to receive her.
Firbeck Hall has been in and out of use, and in and out of the local papers. Here's the most recent report with photos of the location:
