Haunted Essex

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The legends says that Osyth’s headless body rose from the ground, picked up her severed head and walked to the nearby monastery where she knocked on the door three times before collapsing. Epping Forest has a history dating back to the Iron Age, with stories as wide-ranging as highwaymen, Romans, Celtic warriors, and gangsters. The twice-daily update will deliver the top news and features to your inbox every morning and evening.

Matthews Hopkins was based in Manningtree and Mistley during a dark period of English history – the time of brutal witch-hunts.To this day, owners, staff and guests have all felt the presence of a spirit in the pub, while occupiers of neighbouring cottages have also reported paranormal activity. Poltergeist activity has also been recorded by previous investigators, causing frights as bangs thrash out in the dark. She felt she was being watched and all of a sudden she could smell a strong old fashioned floral perfume. He is said to charge down the staircase on a horse wearing full armour (some versions of this tale say that he climbs the staircase of the tower).

In this case the ghost most often encountered by guests and staff is that of Alice Catherine Miller. The battery is located just half a mile away from Coalhouse Fort constructed in 1890 to supplement the Coalhouse Fort as part of the Thames’ coastal defence system. Located in Colchester, The Red Lion Hotel is one of the oldest inns in the oldest recorded town in Britain. In fact many visitors to the theatre have been shocked upon finding out that the man who was often showing them around was actually a ghost.

Kelvedon Hatch was built in Brentwood, south Essex, in 1952 with the sole intention of housing people in case of a nuclear attack in Essex. After they walked away from the girls, the witness heard a scream but when they turned to help both girls disappeared. The first floor of that building is rumoured to be haunted by the ghost of an unknown woman – but the floorboards come to her knees. One Christmas Eve, however, he decided not to come down and just sat in a bacon curing loft at the junction of the two chimneys, ignoring the entreaties to descend.

Locals have reported hearing the sounds of men fighting with swords and soldiers marching - even when the causeway has been flooded by the tide.Investigators have tape-recorded phantom footsteps, mysterious tapping, and even a harsh, menacing cry that has terrified those who have heard it. There are a lot of Victorian people in Braintree but I have seen little Roman girls and people from the Tudor period. He was treated very cruelly by his captors and was made to climb a rope to retrieve what little food they provided him with.