In 1906, a young woman who had just started work as a maid at the Springs House in Lutterworth, newly arrived in an unfamiliar household and presumably still learning her way around the building, woke during the night to see a young man dressed in distinctly old-fashioned clothing standing quietly at the foot of her bed, watching without speaking.
The figure vanished into thin air almost as soon as she registered what she was seeing, and the experience frightened her badly enough that she reportedly never spent another night at the house again, choosing instead to give up the position rather than risk a second encounter.
This is a classic, small-scale domestic ghost story: one named type of witness, a maid new to her post, one clearly dated year, and a clear, simple description of exactly what she saw, but with no further corroboration or repeat sightings recorded by anyone else connected to the house. It is recorded here as a genuine period account rather than as a well-established or widely repeated local tradition.
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