Next Mrs.Claughton saw a male ghost, "tall, dark, healthy, sixty years old," who named himself as George Howard, buried in Meresby churchyard, Meresby being a place of which Mrs.Claughton, like most people, now heard for the first time.

He gave the dates of his marriage and death, which are correct, and have been seen by Mr.
Myers in Mrs.Claughton's note-book.

He bade her verify these dates at Meresby, and wait at 1.15 in the morning at the grave of Richard Harte (a person, like all of them, unknown to Mrs.Claughton) at the south-west corner of the south aisle in Meresby Church.

This Mr.
Harte died on 15th May, 1745, and missed many events of interest by doing so.

Mr.Howard also named and described Joseph Wright, of Meresby, as a man who would help her, and he gave minute local information.