HEE BEEGEE BEES
Mar 30 2006
Pop star Robin shares house with a ghost
By Cameron Robertson

FORMER Bee Gee Robin Gibb is sharing his 12th century home with an
unwelcome spooky guest.
The history fanatic claims to be living in his converted monastery home
with a ghost who plays pranks on the singer and his family.
Robin, who sang lead vocals on Giving Up The Ghost on the band's 1987
album ESP, said: "It was a place where monks would b e trained for their
vocation.

"There's even a resident ghost, who mysteriously fills up the water in
the old font in the chapel, which we converted into a dining room."
There is also the spooky sound of a clock being wound each night around
midnight in the room where a clockmaker - who lived in the house in the
17th century - kept his gear.

Robin said: "We've done everything to try to find a scientific reason
but there isn't one."
The house, called The Prebendal, in Thame Park, Oxfordshire, was built
by the theologian Robert Grosseteste in 1241.
Elizabeth I stayed there, as did Henry VIII with his wife Anne Boleyn.

The ghost is believed to be that of John the gardener who tended the
20-acre estate 500 years ago.

Robin, 57, who also had a hit album called Spirits Having Flown with his
brothers, said his love of the past began as a boy.

He said: "I love visiting old churches and reading about historical
characters.

"I've always had at least one history book on the go, even on tours."