During one such storm, his daughters now young women a strange ship pulled up unexpectedly at nearby Slade Harbour, and a stranger made his way to Loftus Hall. This storm lasted many days if not weeks which mean the stranger continued to reside in the great hall. Somewhere in this timeframe Lady Anne Tottenham found herself becoming close to the visitor. It is said they would talk for hours on end in the hall’s tapestry room and play cards for entertainment most evenings with the entire family.

However things were set to take an unsettling turn during one of these games…

One night during a game Lady Anne dropped a card, she moved her chair back and proceeded to bend over to pick it up, when she looked underneath the table she shrieked in terror when she saw two cloven hooves right before her eyes. The stranger had been exposed as The Devil – he immediately disappeared through the roof in a ball of fire, leaving the family shocked in The Card Room, and Lady Anne in a trauma from which she would never recover.

After this Lady Anne was never the same woman, rumours say that in fact Anne fell pregnant to the stranger before the incident in the card room and after she finally gave birth the family killed the child and buried the remains in the walls of the tapestry room, locking Anne in the room where she gazed out to sea wailing with heartache for the rest of her life.