Springhill is a 17th-century house which was once the home of ten generations of a single family from Ayrshire. In the late 19th-century, a certain Miss Wilson was residing at Springhill and saw a tall female apparition standing at the top of the moonlit stairs. The ghost approached a door to a room and mysteriously threw its hands up in the air in a grief-stricken manner before vanishing. The same room was occupied in later years by another guest, Miss Hamilton, who reported having witnessed excited servants pouring into the room before the door to the room opened, a light shone in, and the activity ceased. Miss Hamilton was dumbfounded to hear that the owner of the house had papered over that particular door. A governess reported having heard two children in the next room to hers holding a casual conversation about a ghostly woman standing by the fireplace. Teddy Butler, an administrator of the property for a number of years, saw a Woman in Black at the foot of the stairs. Heard the sounds of marching and heavy footsteps on the stairs and landing and even collided with a woman going through the back door in the middle of the afternoon. This woman is said to have been the wife of Colonel Conyngham who served in the Crimea. Her portrait disappeared from Springhill a few years ago, mysteriously reappeared wrapped in brown paper, vanished again and it hasn't been seen since.