1. The Legend of the Mistletoe Bough
The Legend of the Mistletoe Bough is a ghost story associated with several mansions and stately homes in England, especially in Hampshire.
The tale tells how a new bride, playing a game of hide-and-seek during her wedding breakfast, hid in a chest in an attic and was unable to escape.
She was not discovered by her family and friends, and suffocated. The body was allegedly found many years later in the locked chest.
The tale is the subject of an old ballad, written by Thomas Haynes Bayley in 1822.

2. Notable claimants for the story's location, some still displaying the chest, include
Bramshill House and Markwell Hall in Hampshire,
Basildon Grotto in Berkshire,
Minster Lovell Hall in Oxfordshire,
Brockdish Hall in Norfolk
Bawgrip Rectory in Somerset.

3. Bramshill House

4. Bramshill House Bramshill House is perhaps the strongest candidate .
It is reputedly the most haunted house in Hampshire and its most famous ghost is supposedly that of the young woman, holding her bridal mistletoe bough, who roams the house looking for someone to release her.
She is associated with the family of Sir John Cope.
However, although the story has a specific setting timewise – the Christmas season of 1737 (hence the mistletoe) – and the groom was apparently a Lovell, its details have not been confirmed for any of the suggested locations.

5. Human Body Decomposition
Within a year, all that is usually left is the skeleton and teeth, with traces of the tissues on them - it takes 40 to 50 years for the bones to become dry and brittle in a coffin.
In soil of neutral acidity, bones may last for hundreds of years, while acid, peaty soil gradually dissolves the bones.
A human body can survive 8-14 days without water depending on the person and how fast sweat, urine, and tears are leaving the body and up to 4 weeks without food depending on conditions like weight, temperature and exertion.