Ralph Whitlock in one of his many books (over 100), Wiltshire Folklore And Legends, published in 1992 by Robert Hale, in a chapter titled ‘Houses, Inns And Churches,’ noted:
“There was once a party at the fourteenth-century manor-house, once the rectory, at Sutton Veny and as the house was very full the hostess asked one of the guests if she would mind sharing her room with her little sister. The girl had no objection and in due course retired for the night, the little sister being tucked into a cot by the bed. In the night the girl awoke with the feeling of a child’s head resting on her shoulder. She thought that her sister must have crept into her bed but on striking a light saw that she was sound asleep in her cot. She went back to sleep but was awakened with the same impression – that a child’s head was resting on her shoulder. But again her little sister was sleeping peacefully. She couldn’t get to sleep again and in the morning related her experience to her hostess. The next night the same thing happened, so for the rest of her stay another room was found for her.”
“Some years later the girl was telling her story in another place when another guest overheard and intervened. She said that at one time she and her husband had bought the old manor at Sutton Veny but had so much trouble with that part of the house that they had the wing pulled down. When the workmen were demolishing it they found under the floor a cavity in which were the skeletons of five children!”