The name Glassensikes refers to “certain closes” which are several tributary streams reaching the river Skerne. At this point on the water-course, an area is known to be haunted. Once, the ghosts were terrible apparitions. Everything from headless men and women, black and white dogs, white cats and rabbits, and mysterious shapes that clanked their chains at night were seen at the location. An interesting account is from a well-respected gentleman of Darlington. He remembers reaching cross-road when a creature larger than a dog bounded out of the shadows and looked at him straight on in the middle of the road. It was large and the colour black. He swore that it was a black hound of the devil. Since these times, the area has been built up and is used by all kinds of commuters. In disgust, it is said, the ghost now only appears as domesticated animals.
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