The genuine discovery of a named individual's skeleton within a concealed room in 1865 gives this haunting an unusually solid documentary and physical basis compared with most of this register's traditions, the specific naming of the remains as Kate Wallace suggesting either a surviving contemporary record of her identity or a name subsequently attached through local investigation and tradition following the discovery.
The secret chamber itself, deliberately concealed within the manor's structure and only found by chance in the 19th century, situates Chambercombe within the same broad category of English country houses possessing genuinely hidden architectural spaces, priest holes and concealed rooms a real feature of numerous historic properties, most originally built for concealment during periods of religious or political persecution rather than for the purpose their later discovery came to suggest.
Kate Wallace's haunting sits alongside the separately recorded two little girls and woman in white at the same manor, together giving Chambercombe three quite distinct hauntings, Kate's own story distinguished from the others by its unusually concrete physical discovery, her remains, unlike most of this register's ghosts, a genuine, once-examined set of human bones rather than a purely oral tradition.
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