Category: Haunted England

Beverley, like most ancient cities, has its ghosts. One of the best-known apparitions was ‘Sir Josceline Percy’s Team’. William Henderson wrote in 1879: The headless…

Amy Robsart’s death at Cumnor Place in 1560 was a notorious scandal in an age of scandals. Born in Norfolk, the daughter of Sir John…

There are several prehistoric round barrows on Inkpen Hill, which are supposed to contain buried treasure, including a coffin made either of solid gold or…

A notable sight in this village is the isolated grave of Samuel ‘Maggoty’ Johnson, a playwright and music master of the eighteenth century, whose eccentricities…

The landscape around St Agnes is dotted with the shafts of disused tin mines. Polbreen Mine, at the foot of St Agnes Beacon, was haunted…

Fletcher Moss, a local historian writing in the 1890s, was told by one of his informants that when the railway to Buxton was being built,…

Aira Beck on its journey downhill into Ullswater forms a series of waterfalls, one of which is Aira (earlier Airey) Force. It is the setting…

Tregagle’s Hole is a natural arch in a rocky promontory south of Carne Beacon. Its name commemorates Cornwall’s most powerful ghost, Jan or John Tregeagle…

Corby Castle, although a comparatively modern building, incorporates an ancient pele tower, which no doubt set the tone for its tradition of ‘the Radiant Boy…

Up to the 1930s, a skeleton used to be kept in an oak chest in this house. Why this should be so is not known;…