Showing posts with label Ghosts of Cambridgeshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ghosts of Cambridgeshire. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 August 2009

Ghost Sighting Cambridgeshire Wicken Fen

Wicken Fen is Britain's oldest nature reserve. The north of the fen was once a priory and occasionally the sound of chanting monks can still be heard drifting across the fen.
Roman legionaries have also been spotted and a huge black dog.

Saturday, 15 August 2009

Ghost Sighting Cambridgeshire Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely

In 1636 Oliver Cromwell moved to Ely. There have been many paranormal events at the house. In 1998 a Guide felt a draught around his feet and reallised his shoelaces were undone. Every time he retied them it happened again.
In 1979 a woman woke in one of the bedrooms and said she was in the same room but at a different time. The door was in a different place.

Ghost Sighting Cambridgeshire The old ferry boat inn

The Old Ferry Boat Inn at Holywell, on the river Ouse, is one of the oldest in England, built in the Anglo Saxon times. It is said to be haunted by the ghost of Juliet Tewsley, who was born in the 11th century. She hanged herself from a tree beside the river after seeing her boyfriend in the braces of another woman.

Ghost Sighting Cambridge The Caxton Gibbet

The Caxton Gibbet stands on a small knoll a mile and a half from the village of Caxton near a crossroads. Here criminals were gibbeted - imprisoned in an iron cage hanging from a gibbet until they died.
In the 18th century the landlord of the inn (now the Yim Houde Chinese restaurant) decided to rob three travellers. After the men had gone to bed, he went into the room and started going through their belongings. On man woke up and the landlord killed him. he then killed the other two and through the bodies down the well. He was caught and hung from the Gibbet.
Footstep have been heard walking from the room to the site of the old well.

Monday, 10 August 2009

Ghost Sighting Cambridge - Arbury Road

This road, and area, are said to be frequented by a shuck that brings ill luck to all that see it.

Ghost Sighting Cambridge - Addenbrookes Hospital

The story is that a ghost appears to those who are being administrated morphine; the psychological effects of the drug would appear to be ignored in this tale.

Ghost Sighting Cambridge - Abbey Road

Exorcised at the turn of the century, Abbey House was said to be the former home for a poltergeist, the echoes of chains, a butler, a woman in white, a squirrel, and a hare. However, the sightings of a grey lady in the 60's may prove reports of the success of the exorcism premature.

Ghost Sighting Cambridge - 25 Montague Road

1924 - A witness saw a young lady in the summer house lying on a hammock. Some time later he was told the description matched that of his aunt, who had died of tuberculosis a few months before his visitation.

Friday, 24 July 2009

Ghost Sighting Cambridgeshire Bell Inn Stilton

Several guests over the years have reported seeing the apparition of a dark figure on horseback outside the Inn, other guests have reported been woken early in the morning to see a dark figure standing at the bottom of their bed. Several customers when settling the bill have asked after a woman dressed in period clothes whom they passed in the corridor and presumed worked for the Hotel.