An earlier group had already had experiences there: a priest and a party of nuns on retreat in 1892 are said to have been among the first, and a family who leased the house in August 1896 left after seven weeks. The 1897 team recorded manifestations during their stay.
The result was controversial. J. Callender Ross, who stayed at the house, told The Times that there was no evidence of anything supernatural and called the investigation fraudulent. The Society later removed material from a volume of its Proceedings on the case and criticised Freer. Trevor Hall's later biography argued that Freer had deceived the Society, plagiarised and lied about her own life. This is mostly a story about how the case was handled, and the haunting itself rests on witness testimony that was not independently checked.
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