Growing up with the Irish stories of their father and the "mad methodist" magazines of Aunt Branwell, influenced by the German romanticism that could be found in the magazines they read, and living next to a churchyard, it hardly seems surprising that the supernatural figures in the Brontes' works. Emily seems to share Heathcliff's conviction that ghosts can and do haunt the living, and Charlotte always defended the veracity of the scene where Jane hears Rochester calling to her across the miles. I have an interest in the folklore of the supernatural, and I have come across a couple of Bronte ghost stories. Amy, keep an eye out for Emily's ghost when you get to the parsonage! I'd be interested to hear what the curators have to say about this, but apparently past caretakes have reported poltergeist activity that they attribute to Emily. Of course, you'd have to believe Emily walked if any of them did. I taped a show on the Brontes a while back, and there were two people who believed Charlotte communicated with them - one person also showed photo she took of the front of the parsonage which shows a shadow in the door she claims is Charlotte. I also recently purchased a book on ghosts stories from different regions of England, and I was very suprised to find one about the Brontes in the Yorkshire section. Mind you, I've never come across this in any biography on the Brontes I've ever read, but this author claimed that on the day Charlotte was buried, the townspeople saw a mysterious figure watching from a nearby hill, dressed all in black. They claimed it was Emily. (I might add, Charlotte was buried with her sisters under the church nave, so I presume the figure was watching the funeral procession). The problem with the Emily ghost stories is the fact that they DO fit so well with the Emily legend. It seems entirely appropriate that she should haunt the moors like her creations did, so maybe people see what they want to see.