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Haunted buildings, poltergeist cases, recorded voices and investigations. Follow the reported experiences and explore how each location’s story developed.
Historical cases
Enfield Poltergeist: the house, the voices and the recordings
A north London household, an intensive investigation and an unusually extensive recorded history.
Treasurer’s House, York: Harry Martindale and the Roman soldiers
Treasurer’s House, York, North Yorkshire, England · 1953 and later accounts
Harry Martindale’s cellar encounter, Roman archaeology, recorded recollections and the house’s other haunting traditions.
Old Jeffrey: the Epworth Rectory haunting of 1716–1717
Epworth Old Rectory, North Lincolnshire, England · 1716–1717
The Wesley family’s letters, moving knocks, household searches and the surviving records of Old Jeffrey.
Borley Rectory: the household reports, wall writings and Harry Price archive
Borley, Essex, England · 1929–1944; earlier family traditions
The original household memorandum, messages to Marianne Foyster, Price’s investigations and the surviving archive.
Ballechin House: the 1897 haunting journal and the Perthshire investigation
Ballechin, near Grandtully, Perthshire, Scotland · 1870s–1899; investigation in 1897
A room-by-room journal, metallic sounds, visitors’ accounts, a period plan and the public debate of 1897.
Willington Mill: the Tyneside haunting and Dr Drury’s night watch
Willington Quay, North Tyneside, England · 1840 correspondence; published 1848
The 1840 letters, Dr Drury’s landing watch, window figures and the mill owner’s response.
The Cheltenham ‘Morton’ haunting: the woman in black, 1882–1889
Pittville, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England · 1882–1889; report published 1892
The woman in black, dated family letters, staircase string experiments and Myers’s inquiries.
Cock Lane, 1762: Scratching Fanny, Samuel Johnson and the London ghost inquiry
Cock Lane, Smithfield, London, England · 1759–1762
A London lodging-house ghost became an accusation of murder, a fashionable spectacle and a courtroom affair. The Cock Lane story brought crowds to a child’s bedside and Samuel Johnson to an inquiry that ended in a church vault. Its surviving accounts reveal how scratching sounds were turned into a voice—and how quickly that voice acquired power over a living man.
Stockwell, 1772: the flying crockery, the fleeing household and Ann Robinson
Stockwell and Rush Common, south London, England · 6–7 January 1772
During two January days, an account from Stockwell described crockery falling, pewter dishes rolling, furniture moving and a household trying one refuge after another. The story followed Mrs Golding and her recently hired maid, Ann Robinson, into neighbouring homes. A signed contemporary pamphlet and a much later explanation give this noisy episode two very different endings.
Derrygonnelly, 1877: William Barrett, the Knockmore cottage and the answering knocks
Derrygonnelly and Knockmore, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland · 1877
A cave-research trip in Fermanagh led physicist William Fletcher Barrett to a cottage troubled by night-time rappings. He arrived with antiquarian Thomas Plunkett after a day exploring limestone caves, drank tea with a bereaved family and waited beside the bedroom door. The resulting account describes candles, footsteps, missing objects and knocks that appeared to answer hidden finger counts.
The Hammersmith Ghost: the white figure, Thomas Millwood and the fatal patrol of 1804
Black Lion Lane area, Hammersmith, London, England · Late 1803–January 1804
Reports of a white figure frightened Hammersmith for weeks. On 3 January 1804 an armed man went out to catch the supposed ghost and shot bricklayer Thomas Millwood, whose clean work clothes were white. The haunting’s history survives through witness testimony, newspaper reports and a trial in which fear, mistaken identity and a real death overtook the original mystery.
The Drummer of Tedworth: Mompesson’s household, the confiscated drum and Glanvill’s watch
Tidworth, Wiltshire, England · 1662–1663; early printed accounts use 1661
A seized drum was followed by hammering on a Wiltshire house, scratching around the children’s bed and visitors hoping to hear the disturbance for themselves. The Tedworth case became a landmark of Restoration ghost literature because John Mompesson wrote about it and Joseph Glanvill carried out a watch. Their accounts preserve both a household crisis and an argument over how extraordinary testimony should be investigated.
The Croglin Grange vampire: Captain Fisher’s story, the window and the disputed house
Croglin, Cumbria, historically Cumberland · Undated events; story recorded by Augustus Hare in a journal sequence of June 1874 and published in 1900
A figure crosses a moonlit lawn, unpicks a leaded window and returns months later to the same bedroom. The Croglin vampire is one of Britain’s most memorable supernatural narratives, but its earliest accessible account is more elusive than many retellings suggest. Augustus Hare names his storyteller and the family said to own the house, while leaving the tenants and the year of the alleged attacks unnamed.
Glamis Castle: the Grey Lady, the secret chamber and the Victorian ghost stories
Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland · Sixteenth-century history; nineteenth-century ghost traditions and later retellings
Glamis has accumulated several mysteries rather than one continuous haunting: a Grey Lady linked with Janet Douglas, a chamber said to conceal a family secret and Victorian stories of alarming figures at windows and bedsides. Reading the castle’s own history beside nineteenth-century publications reveals which details belong to which tradition—and how an old building became one of Scotland’s great repositories of ghost lore.
Ballygally Castle: Isabella Shaw, the Ghost Room and the Antrim coast’s enduring haunting
Ballygally, County Antrim, Northern Ireland · Castle completed in 1625; later haunting traditions and modern reported experiences
Ballygally’s small tower room has become the centre of one of Northern Ireland’s best-known haunting traditions. A woman separated from her child, a fatal escape and knocks along the corridors form the familiar Isabella Shaw story. The surviving castle, official building record, hotel heritage material and named modern accounts provide several different ways into its history.
Hampton Court’s ghosts: Catherine Howard, Sybil Penn and the residents who told the stories
Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, England · Tudor history; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century traditions; investigations and footage in 2000–2003
The Haunted Gallery, a spinning wheel behind a wall, a clock that stops at a death and a figure on a security camera: Hampton Court has collected many kinds of ghost story. Its royal history is only part of the explanation. Residents who lived in the palace after the court left, Victorian writers and modern investigators all helped shape the accounts now associated with its rooms.
Raynham Hall’s Brown Lady: the corridor story and the 1936 staircase photograph
Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England · Nineteenth-century family accounts; photograph taken 19 September 1936
The translucent figure on Raynham’s staircase is one of the best-known images in ghost history. Yet the hall’s earlier Brown Lady story is a different kind of source: a daughter’s account of her father’s encounter, with a portrait, a lamp and a shot fired along a dark corridor. Following both strands reveals how the haunting acquired its lasting identity.
Mary King’s Close: the Coltheart apparitions, Annie’s doll and Edinburgh’s hidden rooms
Mary King’s Close and Allan’s Close, Edinburgh, Scotland · Seventeenth-century account published in 1685; Annie tradition from the 1990s
Beneath Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, Mary King’s Close holds two very different haunting histories. A seventeenth-century printed account describes a household confronted by a grey head, an approaching arm and small dancing creatures. Centuries later, a Japanese psychic’s encounter with a child called Annie began a tradition of dolls and gifts. Their separate source trails make the place more interesting than a single undated ghost story.
Black Shuck, 1577: the Suffolk storm, the church deaths and the original pamphlet
Bungay and Blythburgh, Suffolk, England · 4 August 1577; later East Anglian black-dog traditions
On a stormy Sunday in August 1577, a black dog was said to have appeared inside two Suffolk churches. People died, others were injured and a London pamphlet interpreted the disaster as a warning to its readers. The story became one of the best-known roots of Black Shuck. Reading the original reveals a more particular account than the familiar image of a red-eyed hound roaming the coast.
Hinton Ampner: Mary Ricketts, Captain Jervis and the noises in the old house
Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, England · 1765–1772; Mary Ricketts’s narrative dated July 1772
A mother alone with her children, a room searched and locked, and two naval officers keeping an armed night watch: the Hinton Ampner haunting has an unusually substantial domestic record. Mary Ricketts described the disturbances for her children, while her brother, the future Admiral Lord St Vincent, wrote about what he had heard. Their correspondence makes it possible to follow the household’s changing response over several years.
Cortachy Castle’s drummer: the Airlie family warning and the nineteenth-century accounts
Cortachy Castle, Angus, Scotland · Traditional origin; reported episodes in 1844 and August 1849
Cortachy’s best-known ghost is heard rather than seen. The sound of a drum was said to warn the Ogilvie family of a coming death, and nineteenth-century writers preserved two rather different episodes: a visitor dressing for dinner and a traveller approaching a remote shooting lodge. The distinction between them is central to the story.
Pearlin Jean of Allanbank: the rustling silk, the orchard encounter and the portrait
Allanbank estate, near Allanton, Scottish Borders, Scotland · Family tradition recorded in the nineteenth century; a visit placed around 1790
At Allanbank, the ghost’s arrival could be announced by silk brushing through a passage and the tapping of high heels. Pearlin Jean acquired her name from the lace she was said to wear. Her story survives through servants, an antiquary’s childhood memories, an orchard meeting that went badly wrong and a portrait believed to keep her quiet.
Bisham Abbey’s Lady Hoby: the washing hands, the blotted books and Elizabeth Russell’s memorial
Bisham Abbey and All Saints’ Church, Berkshire, England · Tudor family setting; nineteenth-century recorded haunting tradition
A woman in widow’s clothes is said to move through Bisham Abbey, endlessly trying to wash her hands. The story identifies her as Lady Hoby and connects her grief with a child’s blotted writing books. Yet the surviving family memorial presents a more complicated household. The haunting’s portrait, its supposed paper evidence and the real Elizabeth Russell all deserve a place in the account.
Blenkinsopp Castle’s White Lady: the gold chest, the frightened boy and the sealed passage
Blenkinsopp Castle, near Greenhead, Northumberland, England · Undated medieval-style legend; later accounts recorded in the nineteenth century
The White Lady of Blenkinsopp offers a treasure rather than a warning: follow her, find the hidden gold and release her from the castle. The legend connects a wealthy marriage with an abandoned chest, but its most memorable later account concerns a child who repeatedly refused to go with her. A separate search for a vault gave the story a physical setting beneath the ruins.
Bolling Hall’s White Lady: ‘Pity poor Bradford’ and the Civil War ghost story
Bolling Hall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England · Civil War tradition associated with the siege of 1643
Bradford’s best-known ghost pleads for mercy. During the Civil War, tradition says a woman in white disturbed the Royalist commander’s sleep at Bolling Hall and begged him to spare the town. The story combines a real crisis, a remembered bedroom and a phrase that became part of Bradford’s identity. Its older printed versions reveal how the apparition was connected with the town’s survival.
Edgehill’s phantom battle: the Christmas apparitions and the Civil War pamphlet
Edgehill and the Kineton battlefield area, Warwickshire, England · Battle in October 1642; apparition narrative set at Christmas 1642 and printed in January 1643
Two months after the battle of Edgehill, a pamphlet claimed that the armies returned in the night sky. Drums, cannon, horses and soldiers appeared over the battlefield, and local officials were said to have watched the spectacle for themselves. The account grew into one of Britain’s most famous battlefield hauntings, with a source trail reaching back to the Civil War itself.
Springhill’s Olivia: the staircase, the family tragedy and a curator’s account
Springhill House, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland · Family tragedy in 1816; later haunting traditions and a recorded interview in March 2002
At Springhill, a tall woman in dark clothes is said to pass through the house or stand on the stairs. The tradition calls her Olivia Lenox-Conyngham and connects her with a family tragedy in 1816. A Ghost Club interview in 2002 gives the story a more recent human setting, while the house’s surviving rooms and collections reveal the family world around it.
Combermere Abbey: the library photograph and the earlier child apparition
Combermere Abbey, near Burleydam, Cheshire, England · Child story published in 1870; library photograph dated 5 December 1891
Combermere’s famous photograph appears to show a pale seated figure in a library chair. It is not the abbey’s only recorded ghost story. More than twenty years before that exposure, a published account described a child in an old room, running around a bed before disappearing. Following the two strands separately gives this Cheshire house a much fuller haunting history.
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