{"id":1920,"date":"2025-04-06T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-green-man-ghost-of-bramshill-house-in-england\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:42:09","slug":"the-green-man-ghost-of-bramshill-house-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-green-man-ghost-of-bramshill-house-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"The Green Man Ghost of Bramshill House in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/green-ghost-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8603\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An eccentric, his name was Henry Cope.<br>\nHe lived in northeast Hampshire, England<br>\nand had an obsession with the color green<br>\nand only ate green vegetables and fruits.<\/p>\n<p>He dressed in green impeccably and his<br>\napartment was painted green as well as<br>\nhaving a green sofa, green chairs,<br>\ngreen tables, a green bed and green curtains.<\/p>\n<p>His two-wheeled carriage was also green<br>\nalong with his riding gloves and whips.<br>\nAround his neck, he sported a green<br>\ncravat.<\/p>\n<p>He was said to have lost his wits from too<br>\nmuch studying or from his rejection by<br>\na beautiful woman he loved.<\/p>\n<p>He is thought to have died in 1810 in<br>\nSt Luke&#8217;s Hospital in Old Street London,<br>\na hospital for \u201cincurable pauper lunatics,\u201d<br>\nthough other theories about his death abound.<\/p>\n<p>Now he is one of 12-15 ghosts alleged to<br>\nhaunt Bramshill House in Hampshire, England.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eccentric, his name was Henry Cope. He lived in northeast Hampshire, England and had an obsession with the color green and only ate green vegetables and fruits. He dressed in green impeccably and his apartment was painted green as well as having a green sofa, green chairs, green tables, a green bed and green&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-green-man-ghost-of-bramshill-house-in-england\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}