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When the American, Mr Otis, bought Canterville Castle, everyone told him that this was very foolish, as the place was haunted.

Umney: The housekeeper of the Canterville Chase. Since Sir Simon had not been given any proper burial and no prayer had been made for him, he was changed into a ghost. Nine years after her death, the woman’s brothers imprisoned him in a secret room of the house and starved him to death. He had a very low opinion of his wife and killed her.

In his life on this earth he was known as Sir Simon. The Canterville Ghost: One of the ancestors of Lord Canterville. The Duke of Cheshire: A romantic youth who is deeply in love with Virginia. Still the ghost does his duty of appearing in the corridors, but he made sure that he did his task as silently as possible. The ghost was so exhausted by these encounters that he gave up on the Otis family and came to the conclusion that they did not deserve his efforts of scaring them. Further on his one of the appearances, he was frightened out of his wits by another ghost, which he later realized was a prank played on him by the twin sons of Mr.

As an example, on his first appearance when the ghost was dragging chains, he was offered Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator by Mr. After the arrival of the Otis family, the ghosts tries to frighten them but they over and again mock his presence and efforts. The ghost considered himself to be horrendous until an American family arrives into the house. On the surface the story presents an old manor house, Canterville Chase which is haunted by the ghost of Sir Simon Canterville who had died some three hundred years ago.