Newstead Abbey

The "Goblin Friar" was said to appear to the head of the Byron family before any unhappy event... Shortly before his disastrous marriage to Anne Milbanke, Byron encountered the Black Friar of Newstead Abbey.
This ghost, also known as the "Goblin Friar", was said to appear to the head of the Byron family before any unhappy event. The poet recalls this meeting in his poem "Don Juan". Lord Byron had several supernatural experiences in a bedchamber known as the Rook Cell. When sleeping here the poet was woken by the sensation of something mounting the bed. On sitting up he was confronted by a shapeless black mass, featureless apart from two red glowing eyes. The apparition rolled from the bed onto the floor and disappeared. Lord Byron also is said to have seen a mysterious column of white vapour rising from the floor, which vanished without trace.
A black robed friar says nothing but points a lost doctor the way to a pregnant lady about to give birth...There are many stories about appearances of the Black Friar or Monk. In some he seems to be a portent of doom but in this one he shows a more sympathetic side of his nature. In the 1930s the wife of a houseowner in Newstead village was due to give birth. Her husband telephoned the doctor to come to the house as soon as possible. It was some time before the medic finally appeared and the husband remarked that he was only just in time. "Where have you been - you're so late" he chided. The doctor replied that he would have been later still if he hadn't stopped by a waterfall in the grounds of Newstead Abbey and asked the way of a monk who was standing there.
The black robed figure said nothing but pointed in the right direction. There had been no monks at the Abbey for hundreds of years.