20 Haunted Places in England
Every case file on record in England — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Bodmin Moor — The Beast and the Government's £8,200 Question
B · Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England — Britain's premier phantom big cat: a black, puma-shaped animal reported from Bodmin Moor in Cornwall since 1983 — sixty-plus sightings, livestock kills, video footage — a legend the British government…
Exmoor — The Beast and the Marines
B · Exmoor, Somerset/Devon, England — The phantom big cat that made the British government send soldiers: from 1983, the farmers of Exmoor — starting with Eric Ley, who lost over a hundred sheep in six months to throat wounds and drained …
Blickling Hall — Anne Boleyn's Coach
A · Blickling, Norfolk, England — The Jacobean mansion said to stand on Anne Boleyn's birthplace — where, each 19 May, a headless coachman drives her home, carrying her head in her lap.…
Blue Bell Hill — The Bride on the A229
B · Blue Bell Hill, A229, Kent, England — The crest of the A229 between the Medway towns and Maidstone, carrying Britain's best-documented vanishing bride: on 19 November 1965 Suzanne Browne, twenty-two, died in a crash on the eve of her wedd…
Cannock Chase — Britain's Crowded Haunted Heath
B · Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England — The pine-and-heath country of Staffordshire that Britain keeps as its densest little hotspot: a Chase that files thousands of big-cat reports, hundreds of UFO sightings from the Hednesford Hills, were…
Chillingham Castle — The Blue Boy's Chamber
A · Chillingham, Northumberland, England — England's most continuously inhabited border fortress, dungeon of the wars with Scotland — where the Blue Boy, the torturer and the grey lady share the guides' script.…
Chislehurst Caves — Twenty-Two Miles Under Kent
A · Old Hill, Chislehurst, London Borough of Bromley, England — The great man-made labyrinth under south-east London: some twenty-two miles of chalk and flint workings, centuries of picks attested in the walls, the guided canon naming its passages for Druids, Roma…
RAF Shawbury — The Cosford-Shawbury Nights, Closed by a Rocket
B · RAF Shawbury, Shropshire, England — The Ministry of Defence's own late great case: over two nights, 30-31 March 1993, a wave of low-flying triangular and lit objects crossed England's western counties — dozens of reports, the Cosford me…
Dudley Castle — The Grey Lady of the Zoo
A · Dudley, West Midlands, England — The Norman castle above the Black Country, whose grounds became Dudley Zoo in 1937 — and whose Grey Lady has been reported by staff for a century and a half: Dorothy Beaumont, dead in the 1646 siege a…
284 Green Street — The Enfield Poltergeist
A · Enfield, north London, England — The 1977–79 case at the centre of the world's poltergeist literature: a single-parent family, two daughters at the eye of it, and the most investigated haunting ever recorded.…
Glastonbury Tor — Avalon and the Lord of the Otherworld
A · Glastonbury, Somerset, England — The conical hill above the Somerset levels that medieval Britain fixed as the edge of the other world: Avalon, the apple isle where King Arthur was carried to be healed — where in 1191 the monks of th…
Mitre Square — The Ripper's Ghosts of Whitechapel
A · Mitre Square, City of London / Whitechapel, East End, England — The autumn of 1888, when an unnamed killer took five women in the alleys of Whitechapel and spawned the largest true-crime canon on earth — and a ghost tradition to match: Catherine Eddowes is said to…
The Langham — Room 333 and the Seven Residents
B · 1C Portland Place, Marylebone, London, England — London's self-declared most haunted grand hotel: opened in 1865 as among England's first purpose-built luxury hotels, the Langham carries a resident canon of seven-plus — headlined by the Room 333 enc…
M6 Motorway — Britain's Most Haunted Road
B · Preston to Rugby (Cumbria to Warwickshire corridor), England — Britain's longest motorway — opened as the Preston Bypass on 5 December 1958 — was declared the country's most haunted road by a 2006 national sightings survey, with Roman soldiers, a distraught hitch…
30 East Drive — The Black Monk of Pontefract
A · Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England — An ordinary 1950s council house where the Pritchard family endured Britain's most violent recorded poltergeist — still open to overnight visitors.…
Preston Manor — The Bricked-Up Nun of Brighton
A · Brighton, East Sussex, England — Brighton's museum-run Edwardian manor is one of England's most-visited haunted houses: a bricked-up nun, white and grey ladies, Most Haunted's 'most active night', and ghost tours run by the city coun…
Rendlesham Forest — Britain's Roswell and the Halt Tape
A · Rendlesham Forest, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England — Over three nights after Christmas 1980, in the pine forest between two United States Air Force bases in Suffolk, American servicemen — including the deputy base commander — chased unidentified lights …
Theatre Royal Drury Lane — The Man in Grey
A · Catherine Street, Covent Garden, London, England — The oldest theatre site in London — a playhouse since 1663, the current building since 1812 — and the holder of the West End's senior ghost: the Man in Grey, an eighteenth-century gentleman in tricorn…
Whitby Abbey — The Ruin that Wrote Dracula
A · Whitby, North Yorkshire, England — The headland ruin where Bram Stoker, staying in 1890, found his vampire's name, his shipwreck and his graveyard — a real seventh-century monastery that became literature's most famous haunting.…
Wistman's Wood — Where the Wisht Hounds Den
B · Two Bridges, Dartmoor, Devon, England — The three acres of stunted, moss-hung oak on the high granite of Dartmoor — one of Britain's last fragments of temperate rainforest — which the moor's folklore names as the den of the Wisht Hounds, th…