In her 2004 booklet Haunted Historic Abingdon, Volume 1, author Donnamarie Emmert writes that local legend says that years ago, a hedge ran beside the house up Plumb Alley, and the Bradley’s young servant woman was meeting her lover under the cover of the greenery. One night, her fiancé caught the two of them and murdered them both with a sword. Some believe this misfortune explains the apparition of a young lady that is sometimes seen in the house. 