Borley Rectory is called “the most haunted house in England,” and the subject of intensive and controversial ghost haunting investigations. The investigation was conducted between 1929 and 1938 by Harry Price, founder
Blickling Hall Blickling Hall, standing amid the Norfolk countryside near Aylsham, is associated with one of England’s darkest traditions of the phantom coach. The magnificent Jacobean mansion seen today replaced an earlier house belonging to the Boleyn family, and although
When she was collecting Cheshire folklore in the 1930s, Christina Hole was told how a Catholic woman had seen the ghost of a priest but had not realized it at the time;
The pub in this village is named the Headless Woman, and its signboard does indeed show a woman carrying her severed head under her arm. Pubs displaying this image (now rare) were
The collection of local anecdotes collected from members of Women’s Institutes in the 1950s includes a standing joke against the people of Stanney as being timid simpletons. Allegedly, they were so terrified
In the nineteenth century a ghost known as the Gatley Shouter was said to haunt the Gatley Carrs, a swampy morass near the river in the parishes of Stockport, Northen (now Northenden)
There is an old legend about the Breretons, formerly owners of Brereton Hall, that they,like many other ancient families, had a death omen peculiar to themselves. In their case, it concerned a
According to a tradition of the mid nineteenth century, Lyme Park (near Disley) is said to be haunted by a phantom funeral which slowly approaches the house, followed by the ghost of
This fine Tudor building on the site of a fourteenth-century priory was given by Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves, and then passed to the Hoby family, one of whom (Sir Thomas
Here, the park surrounding the family seat of the Earls of Craven is the setting for a tradition about a death omen. How old this tradition may be is not known, but
Like many stately homes, Woburn Abbey, the seat of the Dukes of Bedford, purports to be haunted. Antony D. Hippisley Coxe, writing in 1973, reports that in a room which has a
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