The following is a true story told by John Honeybone of Ascott-under-Wychwood in the February 1880 edition of the "Parish Magazine of Leafield and Ascott-under-Wychwood".

"It was early in June. I was hoeing in one of Mr.Lardner's fields when, looking up, I saw a figure coming towards me along the furrow. It came within a distance of ten chains (220 yards/200 metres) of me when I plainly saw that it was my mother. I was about to call out to her when suddenly the figure disappeared. I began to doubt if I had really seen anyone, when there came running up a few minutes after my eldest girl crying
"Father," she said, "Grandmother is taken so bad, come at once."
"Ah," I said, "She's dead, I am sure she is dead."
"No," my daughter said, "No she is not dead but she is very bad."
I then told her what I had seen and when we reached home, my mother was lying dead; she had passed away at the very time, as far as I could judge, as when I saw the figure in the field."

In the Parish Magazine is entered the burial of Mary Honeybone (John's mother), aged 64 years on June 14th 1840, by Revd.E.Williams.

Spooky eh?