Whitby: On the trail of Dracula

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James J. Brown notes in his retelling that when the girl explained to her mother why she had stopped on the stairs and what she had seen, the mother realised straight away that what her daughter witnessed was not of the living, as she personally knew of the one-armed keeper, who had tragically died on those stairs some years before. Which version of this, if any, is true, we may never know.