Ernie Thompson riding west past the stackyard at Sharpley Hall Farm about half a mile west of Seaton. C 1930.       
The Thompsons are reputed to have lived in Seaton for at least a thousand years, John Thompson and his wife Margaret and their son Ralph and his family still live in the village today. Village folklore says that a ghostly black dog is only seen and heard howling when a Thompson is about to die.       
There are five articles on Seaton in the C A Smith Articles in the History section, one of which describes the village ghosts. Interestingly two people have told me how they came across the other Seaton ghost, the grey lady, one, after slowing his car to cross the railway line at Seaton bank top near Darkies Plantation had a terrifying trip for half a mile or so with her sitting on the bonnet, the second was my son who in 1985 was travelling from Houghton to Seaton in the early hours of the morning on his motorbike (sober) when she crossed the road in front of him. Neither had heard of the ghost before they met her!!