Based on Richard Harris Barham’s humorous ghost story from The Ingoldsby Legends, this episode blends gothic atmosphere with quirky supernatural mischief. Lieutenant Charles Seaforth, recovering from a head wound sustained in India, visits his cousins at Tapton Manor—a place steeped in eerie legends. He’s warned about the haunted Oak Room, where the ghost of Sir Giles Engles supposedly roams.

On his first night, Charles sleeps in the Oak Room and wakes to find his trousers missing. This bizarre event repeats nightly, and Charles becomes convinced he’s being haunted.