RICHARD FREEMAN: Legends of Lincolnshire #2

Ghost in a Box

A woman at Tupholm who died from neglect. Afterwards her husband married the woman who ought to have attended to her. The ghost of the dead woman haunted the cottage until her spirit was laid in a box and buried in the cottage by a clergyman; but when the man died in 1840 and the cottage was taken down, the workmen broke open the box in which the woman's spirit had been laid for thirty years, but it then burst forth, with such a sound as if all the trees in the neighbouring wood were falling, so that the workmen ran away in terror.