Category: Haunted England

Stocken Hall, just north of Clipsham, is an early Georgian house with neo-Elizabethan additions, which later became an open prison farm. Hidden in its own…

North of Caldecott, the Uppingham road (A6003) leads past the site of the deserted medieval village of Snelston. The sole remaining trace of the village,…

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Edith Weston endured a remarkably noisy outbreak of activity by a poltergeist or ‘rapping ghost’. In an old…

Recorded by the Rutland Local History Society is the tradition of an animal ghost – and unusually an animal actually known in the village rather…

Brooke priory, an Augustinian foundation from before 1153, was the only monastic house in Rutland. The mansion today called Brooke Priory is commonly believed to…

In the seventeenth century, Braunston was the scene of poltergeist activity. As the first of four ‘Stories’ accompanying a letter by Mr Thomas Woodcocke dated…

In 1977, a lady from Morcott reported to the Rutland Local History Society that when she walked her dog down Green Lane, at Barrowden, the…

Traditionally, there are several ways to lay ghosts. Some require their bones to be found and buried; some are laid by prayer and Masses; others,…

The parish church at North Leigh includes a medieval chantry chapel for the Wilcote family, with fifteenth-century effigies of Sir William Wilcote or Wilicotes (d.…

In this town, and in several villages of the area, there is a strong tradition that the malevolent ghosts of two seventeenth-century grandees, Sir Laurence…