The Grey Lady's association with the 1881 fire has an obvious emotional logic even if no source consulted for this entry names her specifically as Lady Robartes herself, the timing and manner of the tragedy, a woman dying of shock days after losing the home she had lived in for decades, sitting very close to the kind of sudden, grief-driven death that English ghost tradition most often attaches to a lingering, restless spirit.
The range of phenomena reported well beyond the single named apparition, moving shadows, dragged furniture, and cigar smoke with no visible smoker, suggests a house whose ghost tradition has grown cumulatively over more than a century since the fire, with new witnesses adding their own small unexplained details to an existing story rather than everything tracing back to one original sighting.
The 2004 vigil by a dedicated Cornwall paranormal group adds a specifically modern, self-consciously investigative layer to the older domestic tradition, its reported nursery laughter and male garden presence introducing entirely new figures rather than confirming the earlier Grey Lady, which this register records as an expansion of the haunting's cast rather than independent corroboration of it.
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