Newbottle Lodge, near Desborough, has a reported history of strange sounds and bangs experienced directly by an owner of the property, who on one particular occasion is said to have actually encountered a black shape somewhere on the premises and, in a genuinely dramatic response, fired a rifle straight through it.
No further detail survives anywhere about what, if anything, that shot actually revealed once fired, or whether the strange sounds and bangs continued to trouble the property afterward, leaving the whole incident hanging without any real resolution or aftermath recorded.
It stands as an unusually aggressive response for a ghost story recorded anywhere in this collection, and it is reported here exactly as thinly as it actually survives in the original source, an owner's single dramatic gunshot standing as the entire content of the story rather than any developed narrative explaining what he was actually shooting at or why.
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