Springhill's most haunted area seems to be the blue-room. Visitors to the house regularly feel alarming temperature drops when they step across the threshhold. The guides who lead the tours round the property put this down to the "presence" which is known to haunt the room.

In 1814 George Lenox-Conyngham, was away on his army duties when he received news that his children had been stricken with smallpox. George was a man prone to bouts of melancholy and went out of his mind with worry as he awaited news of their conditions. When no news was forthcoming he abandoned his post early one night and headed home for Springhill. On the way he met his commanding officer and good friend, Robert Stewart. Lenox-Conyngham was sure that Stewart would understand his plight, and as he had similarly covered for Stewart on other occasions it was no surprise to him when Stewart raised no objections. Lenox-Conyngham made it back to Springhill where he found that his wife, Olivia, had nursed all the children back to good health. His relief was to be short lived however. He received news that he was to be court marshalled for abandoning his post as his so-called friend had betrayed him. This, coupled with the sudden death shortly thereafter of one of his daughters brought on a fit depression that was to last two years.

One night he went downstairs to the gunroom, took a pistol from the wall, returned to the blue room where he sat on the bed and raised the gun to himself. Olivia, realising what he was about to do, rushed to prevent his suicide but it was too late. She had just reached the bedroom door when she heard a gun shot.

Olivia's ghost is still said to repeat the desperate dash to save her dear husband. She has been seen on several occasions standing at the door of the blue room with her hands raised in horror. During the latter part of the 19th century, a houseguest named Miss Wilson had sat up late one night chatting with the daughter of the house, Milly Conyngham. When Milly finally retired to bed Miss Wilson noticed that she had left her diary behind. As she left her room to return the diary she was startled by the sudden appearance of a tall woman at the top of the stairs. The apparition moved towards her with it's arms raised in despair, and then slowly faded away.

Many years later Miss Hamilton, another guest staying at the house had gone to bed one night in the blue room when, just as she was starting to fall asleep, the room appeared to fill with agitated servants who were "pushing and wrangling in whispers." As she lay there terrified she heard a clicking noise from the wall behind her bed and turning, saw a door open and a light shine from it. She later recalled how "someone seemed to come out through this light and stilled the commotion, so that all fear left me, and after a while I fell asleep." The next morning she was startled to find that no door existed anywhere behind her bed. However, when she reported her experience to Charlotte Lenox-Conyngham, she was told that there was a door behind the bed but that it had been long since bricked up and been papered over. In more recent years, the blue room's wallpaper was stripped off and the secret door uncovered. It opened into a powder closet, on the floor of which lay an ancient pair of gloves and small pouch containing bullets.

In the early years of the 20th century the last generation of Lenox-Conyngham children to live at the house were asleep one night when their nanny suddenly awoke to find Olivia's phantom standing over the children, as though checking the well-being of each one of them in turn. The nursemaid felt no fear at all. Indeed she was moved by the concern that the apparition appeared to show towards the children. Within a few moments, evidently satisfied that all was well, the ghost simply faded away and was gone.

Objects are also moved in the blue room without being touched by human hand and several articles have completely disappeared.

I myself was at Springhill house in highschool for a class trip and I was in the blue room and compared to the rest of the house the blue room is freezing cold. And I say the hidden door, to be completely honest it scared me. I myself live like 30 minutes away from the place and my old history teacher used to work there. Anyway I hoped you enjoyed this story please vote and comment.