Haunted England- Page 10

In the forepart of the seventeenth century, Lutterworth was the scene of a disturbance by a ‘rapping spirit’ or poltergeist. Richard Baxter, in his Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits (1691), recalls

One of the family from whom Papillon Hall at Lubenham got its name was David Papillon (d. 1762), locally known as ‘Pamp’, ‘Old Pamp’, or ‘Lord Pamp’. He was greatly feared in

A contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1790 sent the editor a brief account of ‘the very best ghost which ever made its appearance in England’. He writes: It appeared for several

An account of 1875 speaks of a house at Kibworth known for ‘upwards of half a century’ to be haunted. It is said that one man killed another there, and afterwards ghostly

The Hall at Husbands Bosworth is haunted by a ghost thought to be the restless shade of a Protestant lady suffering eternal remorse for refusing to allow a Catholic priest to come

Appearing in the Leicester Chronicle, 20 June 1874, was notice of ‘The Bloody Tomb’ at Hinckley. Children and strangers used to be taken in the month of April to see the ‘bloody

On the south-east border of Charnwood Forest, near Newtown Lindford, is Bradgate Park, and the ruins of the brick mansion built c.1490–1505 by Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset. It is chiefly remembered

Upwood House was once lived in by the Hussey family. Charles Tebbutt in Huntingdonshire Folklore (1984) reports that, in 1757, the occupants were Thomas Hussey and his daughter Maria Ann. She wanted

The earliest recorded manifestation in England of the Wild Hunt took place at Peterborough, in connection with the arrival of a new abbot, Henry of Poitou, who ‘did nothing good there and

According to a story collected by the folklorist James Bowker in the 1880s, there was once a young vicar in this village whose reclusive habits and scholarly tastes caused his parishioners to