The radiant boy by the bedside
Fearing something had caught fire, a witness in bed looked out and saw a golden-haired boy in white standing beside the bed.
Catherine Crowe printed the statement in The Night-Side of Nature, in the witness's own words. Fearing that something had caught fire, the witness looked out. Instead there was a handsome boy dressed in white, with hair like gold, standing beside the bed. The boy stayed there for some minutes, watching the witness with a kind, gentle look.
Then the boy slid away toward the chimney side of the room, where the witness notes there was no way out, and vanished. The room was dark again, and nothing more happened until it was time to get up.
John Ingram's Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain prints the same statement almost word for word.
"I looked out, apprehending that something had caught fire, when, to my amazement, I beheld a beautiful boy, clothed in white, with bright locks, resembling gold, standing by my bedside, in which position he remained some minutes, fixing his eyes upon me with a mild and benevolent expression. He then glided gently away toward the side of the chimney, where it is obvious there is no possible egress, and entirely disappeared. I found myself again in total darkness, and all remained quiet until the usual hour of rising."
- The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain, John H. Ingram (1897), Internet Archive