Well, here in Malta we've got loads of history (descendents of the Phoenicians, ya know), civilization older than the pyramids, so naturally we're just teeming with ghost stories; most of them involving the Knights of St. John who goverened the country for about 250 years. I do believe there's even a war-ghost story circulating somewhere in the family, but I can't remember it so I shall tell one of the most famous ghost stories of Malta, which is much more sad than it is scary.
In the days when Malta was governed by the Knights of St. John there was once a Grandmaster by the name of Emmanuel de Rohan. The Grandmasters had built for themselves a beautiful little palace overlooking the only woodland in Malta (being that it's so small) where they and theirs dwelt.
The story goes that de Rohan had a niece who was promised to a suitor who she didn't love at all. Angry, her rejected suitor locked away in her room in the palace until she agreed to marry him, which she would never do. One day, whilst locked in her room she'd had enough, so she climbed out of the window and fell to her death.
Legend has it that she began to haunt the palace wearing the blue dress that she had been in when she'd died, giving her the name of the Blue Lady. There are actually meant to be quite a few ghosts haunting the palace, which is surprising, as, I've been there and it's not really that big, but there are several accounts from different people occupying it (it's used as a presidential palace these days).
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on 2004-10-26 08:31 pm (UTC)In the days when Malta was governed by the Knights of St. John there was once a Grandmaster by the name of Emmanuel de Rohan. The Grandmasters had built for themselves a beautiful little palace overlooking the only woodland in Malta (being that it's so small) where they and theirs dwelt.
The story goes that de Rohan had a niece who was promised to a suitor who she didn't love at all. Angry, her rejected suitor locked away in her room in the palace until she agreed to marry him, which she would never do. One day, whilst locked in her room she'd had enough, so she climbed out of the window and fell to her death.
Legend has it that she began to haunt the palace wearing the blue dress that she had been in when she'd died, giving her the name of the Blue Lady. There are actually meant to be quite a few ghosts haunting the palace, which is surprising, as, I've been there and it's not really that big, but there are several accounts from different people occupying it (it's used as a presidential palace these days).