Category: Haunted England

In the parish church at Bulwick is a bronze plaque to the memory of Admiral Sir George Tryon (1832–93), born at Bulwick Park, his family…

In 1621, the Mildmay chapel was added to the parish church of St Leonard at Apethorpe, north of Oundle, to house the huge marble monument…

Althorpe Park was in the nineteenth century the subject of a fairly singular ghost story. As John Ingram, in Haunted Homes (1888), remarks: That a…

Wolterton was built by Horatio Walpole, the brother of the statesman Sir Robert Walpole, in 1727–41. Lady Dorothy Nevill, in Mannington and the Walpoles (1894),…

Caister Castle was built by Sir John Fastolf in about 1420. The Revd John Gunn of Irstead wrote in 1849: ‘The marvellous account of a…

It was no doubt thanks to its combination of hoary antiquity and later neglect that Waxham Hall acquired the reputation of being haunted. By the…

In the churchyard at Thurlton, on the north side of the church, is the Wherryman’s Gravestone. Carved with the picture of a Norfolk wherry, it…

According to W. G. Clarke, in his In Breckland Wilds (1926), many years ago, a spectre known as ‘the White Rabbit’ haunted parts of Thetford…

Of old, the town consisted of Upper and Lower Sheringham, one a prosperous agricultural village, the other a poor fishing community. On the boundary of…

According to nineteenth-century report, an apparition known as ‘the Long Coastguardsman’ walks the Norfolk coast from Bacton to Mundesley every night just as the clock…