Mok O'Keefe moved into a castle, and then discovered a previous owner was buried under the cherry tree

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00:00I'm Mokko Keith and I live in Llanfairhangwylchel Corni in Abergavenny.

00:08My husband and I moved to our baby castle in 2021.

00:12We were living in Gloucestershire.

00:14He wanted to come home to Wales and we couldn't resist it when we saw it in Country Life.

00:18I love history, I love great estates, I love country houses, so it was fantastic the idea

00:23that we could actually live in one.

00:26And as a historian and a gay man I've never seen gay history in the great estates or great

00:31country houses in the UK and I want to put that right by living in one myself.

00:36Well Gladys resides here, I wouldn't say Gladys lives here, so she when she was a small child

00:41planted this cherry tree behind me and she loved the property so much that she asked

00:46to have her ashes placed in the cherry tree when she died.

00:50She died in the house in a room that we now have off our kitchen as our snug and she resides

00:56here and I say hello to her every single morning.

00:59I took a moment, I had to think about the fact there is a dead woman in the garden,

01:03but what it said to me is someone loved this house and if someone loved this house so much

01:09that he wants to spend eternity here well that's a pretty good sign that I'd be happy

01:13here too and I hope one day I might join her in the tree as well.

01:16Halloween this place goes crazy, we have you know spectacles in the garden, we light up

01:20the tree, people love it, the children love it, you know I don't think that Gladys if

01:25she is here and if she is a ghost there's a really good feeling in this house and I

01:29think if she's here she's protecting it, protecting us, protecting the village, it's a house of

01:34love and I think the love comes from Gladys in the tree.