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san4uzel · Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 72 Location: British

The Drummer of Hurstmonceaux Castle, Sussex

A giant over nine feet all, who died at the battle of Agincourt, who was killed by French knights, is said to be our phantom Drummer of Hurstmonceaux Castle

He returns to re-enact the victory drum roll for his master, Lord Dacre who built Hurstmonceaux Castle.

Over many centuries many people have claimed to heard the phantom drumming.
And many explanations have been given to count for it.

One story states that the phantom drummer was a real drummer used to scare people away while smugglers hid contraband in the castle vaults.
However this doesn't explain why the drummer was heard centuries before and after that.

One explanation for the phantom drummer, concerns the elderly Lord Dacre, who resigned to spend his days devoted to religion.
Allowing the world to think him dead, he kept himself in a room and lived on only bread and water.

However to keep admirers away from him beautiful young "widow", he dressed in phosphorescent paint and drummed his way along the battlements.
His young wife so annoyed by this, crept to his room late at night and locked him in, leaving him to starve to death.
As he was already "dead" there would be no problem with people enquiring as to his whereabouts.
However this did nothing to stop the ghostly drumming which now continues to this day

So who is our ghostly drummer: The giant who plays his drums for his master or the master himself ?