The Edevane Window: A Forgotten Curse in Somerset

When a stained-glass window was removed from a 200-year-old estate in Somerset for restoration, a local craftsman discovered something no one was supposed to see — a note hidden inside the frame, written by a child who was never listed on the family’s records.

What follows is a tale of whispered names, vanishing children, and a woman buried where no grave was ever marked.

📖 The Edevane Window

[March 2023, Somerset Times]

Local restoration artist Thomas Ewell made a haunting discovery this week during the refurbishing of a stained-glass window from Edevane House, an abandoned manor set to become a wedding venue. Hidden within the iron frame of a rose-shaped pane was a note in faded ink, written in what appears to be the trembling hand of a child:

“If anyone finds this, please don’t fix the window. She’ll come back through it. She always comes through the glass.”

— Rosalie Edevane, age 9 (1891)

There are no official records of a Rosalie Edevane ever existing.

[From the Edevane House Journal, 1889]

Sept 12: Lady Eleanor’s youngest was found weeping again near the chapel window. Says she saw 'the lady in the glass' smiling at her. No governess was nearby. Lady Eleanor has insisted the window be covered until it’s “properly blessed.” Strange request.

[Letter recovered from attic, unsigned – 1891]

They say I talk to mirrors. But she talks first.

She watches from the chapel window at night, not in the glass — behind it. She smiles with teeth too long, and she says I must come with her because my name was never meant to exist.

They said I was sick. But I wasn’t. I only listened too well.

If I go missing, don’t try to find me. She doesn’t like visitors.

[BBC Archive Dig, 1978]

A 1978 interview with then-owner Beatrice Edevane (age 84) describes the window as “bad luck.” She claimed that three children “went strange” after playing near the old chapel.

“One of them just stood there, staring into the glass until her nose bled.”

“Another vanished entirely. They said her mother took her away but we knew better. You don’t pack no bags for a child taken by the glass.”

The estate was shuttered for decades after.

[Journal Entry from the Restoration Artist, March 2023]

"I removed the rose window from its frame. There were scratch marks on the inside of the lead. Not decorative ones — human ones. Fingernails, maybe. A child’s size. One of the panes cracked while I was cleaning it. When I looked closer, I saw something faint… not a reflection, but a shape behind mine. I turned around. The room was empty."

"I’m sleeping with the lights on now."

[Local Archives Update – April 2023]

The parish records for the Edevane family list two children: Charles (d. age 12) and Emmeline (d. age 5). No mention of Rosalie exists in the family Bible, nor in birth registries. But a 1892 newspaper clipping from The Somerset Herald reports:

“Funeral service held privately for a child of the Edevane line; unnamed. Family declined to comment.

[Voice Memo Transcript – Paranormal Investigator, 2024]

“We visited the chapel last night. The window was reinstalled last year after the restoration… it’s beautiful. Crimson, gold, and that rose at the center. But my partner swears she saw a little hand press up against the inside from the other side of the glass. Not a print — a hand.”

“We brought heat sensors. No signs of wildlife. No drafts. Just cold — all around the window. 2°C lower than anywhere else in the room.”

The Edevane Window is still intact and open to the public.

Some say the little girl was real, erased from records out of shame or fear. Others believe the stained glass was never just art — but a seal.

If Rosalie was warning us, the question remains:

Is the window really restored… or reopened?