Bath Paranormal

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Bath is steeped in history with some darker and mysterious stories, from The Medieval, Romans, Georgian, Regency and Victorian eras.

I will be sharing the well known ghost stories of the City as well as some lesser known ones and looking at the history behind them.

As well as asking if you have any paranormal experiences you would like to share (you can message me and remain anonymous if you prefer) or share any ghost stories you have heard.

My vision is to create a collection of the haunted areas in Bath for researching and understanding why they maybe haunted.. or not.. I was Born & Bred in Bath and have worked in some of the haunted places featured..

Or if you need advice, please do contact me, as I have access to an experienced network of investigators, historians and researchers who maybe able to help..

** Please note -We are not associated with events, nor do we do Live streams or Live investigations ** but may feature Bath based teams if they are at places of interest.

Bridgerton Haunted Locations.. Bath

To celebrate the release of Bridgerton Series 2, I am featuring some haunted hotspots on the sites in Bath where Bridgerton was filmed..

Mainly series 1, as due to the overwhelming success of the first season, filming for Season 2 was sneakily done in May last year just at the Holburne Museum (Lady Danburys House)

Trim Street

The location of Gunters Tea Shop where Simon and Daphne meet with the famous spoon licking scene and where Simon later ends their friendship outside, as well as the Hat Emporium next door.

Hauntings- The Victorian Gent of Trim Street - Bath

There have been multiple sightings of this apparition by many different people, they are always alone and the description is always the same..

They report seeing a man in Victorian evening dress with a long black cloak and top hat, one particular witness in 1980 described him as emerging from the Archway and walked towards them and crossed their path going to the far side of the road, as the witness tried to turn their head to stop and look at hi,m they found they couldn't and just kept walking, but an unpleasant feeling came across them as they realised what they had witnessed.

As this lifted they turned to look and found he had vanished, yet there wasn't enough time for him to have left the street or gone into a doorway..

History - Trim Street is an historic street, built in 1707, of shops and houses, many of which are listed buildings.

It was named after George Trim who owned the land.

Number 5, which is also known as General Wolfe's house, is a two-storey building with a parapet and rusticated quoins, built by Thomas Greenway.

The doorway has Ionic pilasters and a tympanum decorated with the implements of war.

General James Wolfe was staying in the house when William Pitt, the elder commanded him to lead an expedition to Quebec, he died in 1759, so its doubtful the apparition is him, as the attire is described as Victorian.. ?

Jane Austen also lived in Trim Street, although her house is no longer there.

This was the Austen family's fourth address in Bath, each progressively cheaper and less desirable than the last.

Photo Source - Pinterest Shondaland/ Netflix & Bath in Time

Bridgerton Haunted Locations.. Bath To celebrate the release of Bridgerton Series 2, I am featuring some haunted hotspots on the sites in Bath where Bridgerton was filmed..

Mainly series 1, as due to the overwhelming success of the first season, filming for Season 2 was sneakily done in May last year just at the Holburne Museum (Lady Danburys House)

Abbey Green and Abbey Street ~ Bath This little area has a lot going on in the Bridgerton World. Its the location of the Modiste, where everyone gets their dresses from, No 2 Abbey Street, also known as Elton House, part of Abbey Green, currently a deli called Pickled Greens. Interestingly according to records, there was a hosier and haberdashers there in the mid 1700s, and a corset maker in 1846. Also a bootmaker called Wallace, no relation to me, I dont think....

Also the apartment of Anthony Bridgertons lover Siena is next door at No 3. Actual Abbey Green, the quaint cobbled circular street, is where Penelope & Eloise would stroll and chat around the market, also used for some night scenes. At the bottom of Abbey Green is the archway, where the Duke of Hastings falls down drunk after drowning his sorrows.

Hauntings- There is the Crystal Palace Pub on Abbey Green, which is reported to be haunted. Previously known as The Three Tuns in the 1600's In 1984, the landlord discovered several skeletons and a Roman mosaic floor , this spot was a Roman Villa as there is another floor at the back discovered in 1814. Several dark hooded monk like figures have been sighted here and a figure is said to materialise whenever building work is carried out and it has also been known to rattle empty glasses too. As well as the story of the naked Roman legionary who runs between the Abbey & the pub. Often, witnesses have seen this naked man, loping between the abbey and the Crystal Palace. Police with others have pursued this elusive creature. They reported a metamorphosis during the pursuit. In the first case, it loses its solid form, becoming a misty substance. Its shape quickly becomes cloudy with grey when it reaches Abbey Green, disappears. Also a tragic murder took place just around the corner outside what was Evans chip shop, in the 1980's Photo Source- Freshford com

Bridgerton Haunted Locations.. Bath

To celebrate the release of Bridgerton Series 2, I am featuring some haunted hotspots on the sites in Bath where Bridgerton was filmed..

Mainly series 1, as due to the overwhelming success of the first season, filming for Season 2 was sneakily done in May last year just at the Holburne Museum (Lady Danburys House)

The Royal Crescent

The Royal Crescent features in a lot of the scene-setting sequences in Bridgerton used to transport the viewer to Regency London, right from the beginning of the first ever episode, errand boys deliver the latest offerings from Lady Whistledown, and couples promenade.

In S1 Ep4, the characters gallop on horseback along the Royal Crescent and Beauford Square at night on their way to duel at daybreak.

At the farther end of the Crescent, Simon and Lady Danbury take a carriage ride together where the Crescent can be seen in the background and No. 1 Royal Crescent, on the corner, was used as the frontage for the Featherington House.

Hauntings -

Sounding like a plotline straight out of Bridgerton this ghostly tale starts off as a love story between classical singer Elizabeth Linley and playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Elizabeth was born in Bath in 1754 and travelled the country with her family, singing.

Not only was Elizabeth a talented Soprano but was also the so called ‘Beauty of Bath’.

She had many admirers, the most persistent of which was Captain Thomas Mathews, who constantly harassed her, trying to force her to be his lover. Elizabeth, however, was not interested, and it was at this point she met Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Sheridan was born in Ireland in 1751 and moved to Bath in 1770. He got to know Elizabeth, who was friends with his sister, and quickly became her confidant.

One evening in March 1772, Elizabeth was at home at Number 11, Royal Crescent, and under the cover of darkness snuck out to meet Sheridan who was waiting for her in the horse-drawn carriage outside.

From there they journeyed to France where they secretly eloped, at the time they were both underage and didn’t have their parents’ consent, so they swore to keep it a secret.

Once back in Bath Captain Mathews challenged Sheridan to a duel, Sheridan was victorious and went to Elizabeth’s father to officially ask for her hand in marriage but was denied and they were banned from speaking to each other.

This spurred Captain Mathews to confront Sheridan again, resulting in another duel, which this time Sheridan lost; however, his life was saved by a miniature of Elizabeth that he carried in his breast pocket.

Eventually, once they had both come of age, after much persistence from Sheridan, and Elizabeth threatening suicide, her father agreed that Elizabeth and Sheridan could marry.

There is no happy ending to this love story though, as they were both unfaithful throughout their marriage and at the age of 38 Elizabeth died from tuberculosis, with Sheridan living until he was 64.

However, their spirits reunited, and they remain together in the afterlife, with the couple’s ghosts’ been caught haunting the Royal Crescent in a horse-drawn carriage, as they did the night they eloped.

Sounds of a ghostly horse and carriage can sometimes be heard.

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To celebrate the release of Bridgerton today, I will be featuring a few of the locations used in the filming, I am working on a feature of a Bridgerton/ Paranormal nature, so watch this space!

This is Lady Danburys Home. The Holburne Museum - Bathwick - Bath Since 1916 the Museum has been housed in the former Sydney Hotel at the end of Great Pulteney Street. The original design for the Hotel, prepared by Thomas Baldwin in 1794, was a two-storey building which would serve the pleasure gardens, known as Sydney Gardens, laid out by Baldwin beyond. The gardens remain the only remaining eighteenth-century pleasure gardens (or Vauxhall) in the country. After Baldwin was bankrupted his design for the hotel was not implemented. Instead a three-storey building was designed by Charles Harcourt Masters. The foundation stone was laid in 1796 and the building was ready by 1799. Visitors entered the gardens through the Hotel. It has been used as a location for many films & tv series, most recently seen in Bridgerton as Lady Danburys house. Hauntings - Reputed to be haunted by a little boy.. Has anyone heard any other stories?

Margaret Royal - The founder of the Bath Ghost Walks In the 1970's, Margaret Royal was a lady in Bath with a great deal of psychic knowledge. She began to investigate and acquire stories from the witnesses of paranormal events in Bath. She became well known in the city and was always on the radio and tv to tell of her latest findings. Along with her friend, Hilary Bolwell, who was also a psychic medium, they began to unearth a wealth of paranormal activity at various sites in the city. During their tours of Bath, to the various supposed haunted locations they would both be able to sense and be aware of the spirits of the past. Eventually they discovered an area of Bath which was so powerfully psychic that ordinary people with no particular psychic training or ability could with some guidance be made aware that there is more to heaven & earth than what we normally know about. Margaret Royal decided to create a ghost walk starting from the Garricks Head and heading into the most haunted parts of Bath, telling the various stories she had uncovered on the way. It was on this that it was discovered that the Theatre Royal and the Garricks Head shared the same spirits.

She wrote three books,True Stories of the Ghosts of Bath with Ian Girvan (1974) Local Ghosts (1976) and Bristol Ghosts with Ian Girvan (1977) The Bath Ghost Walks still run today.

The Spirits of the Theatre Royal

Baths Theatre Royal is said to be one of the most paranormally active buildings in the City.

It was built in 1805. and is a Grade II* listed building, it has been described by the Theatres Trust as "One of the most important surviving examples of Georgian theatre architecture".

It has a capacity for an audience of around 900.

The Theatre Royal was built to replace the Old Orchard Street Theatre, funded by a Tontine and elaborately decorated.

The architect was George Dance the Younger, with John Palmer carrying out much of the work.

It opened with a performance of Shakespeare's Richard III and hosted performances by many leading actors of the time including Dorothea Jordan, William Macready and Edmund Kean.

A major fire in 1862 destroyed the interior of the building and was quickly followed by a rebuilding programme by Charles J. Phipps, which included the construction of the current entrance.

Further redecoration was undertaken in 1892; more extensive building work, including a new staircase and the installation of electric lighting, followed in 1902.

Despite performances by casts including Sarah Bernhardt, the ballerina Anna Pavlova and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the theatre was rarely very profitable.

During World War II Donald Wolfit, Irene Vanbrugh, John Gielgud and Sybil Thorndike appeared, with shows including Noël Coward's Private Lives and Blithe Spirit, a performance by Ballet Rambert and light entertainment such as Charley's Aunt, but audiences declined.

In 1979 the theatre was bought by a trust and, following public donations, it underwent refurbishment, with the rebuilding of the stage and the installation of a new taller fly tower for scenery and lighting.

In 1997 a new 120-seat theatre, known as the Ustinov Studio, was opened.

Further restoration work to the main auditorium was needed in 2010 and in 2005 a children's theatre known as The Egg was opened.

Hauntings -

The most well known spirits of the Theatre are that of a Grey Lady and the famous story of the Tortoishell Butterfly, which is said to be an omen of good luck and appears usually around December for Panto season.

But on reading an intriguing book by Malcolm Cadey on the ghosts of Bath, I have discovered a lot of eyewitness accounts of some very unusual and in some cases disturbing phenomena at the theatre over the years..

In the 1970's Margaret Royal decided to create a ghost walk starting from the Garricks Head and heading into the most haunted parts of Bath, telling the various stories she had uncovered on the way.

It was on this that it was discovered that the Theatre Royal and the Garricks Head shared the same spirits, as the Theatre is between two houses, Richard (Beau) Nash lived in both, the Garricks Head was his original house, of which part of it was then built into the theatre.

On the other side was his second house where Popjoys Restaurant was in later years and where Juliana Popjoy lived, she was his final mistress before he died there in 1761.

The other principle spirits there are a man in a red wig, tricorn hat and long coat, and the Grey Lady, but whether the grey lady is the same spirit or not? as there maybe two...

Some of the eyewitness accounts, mainly by staff of the theatre over the years, include a terrifying black shapeshifting mist that manifested in front of several people, changing form in front of the terrified witness then either discipating or shooting up into the ceiling.

The man on the foyer, which had had lots of sightings, but strangely only by people who are actors, not staff.. this is the man in the tricorn hat, red wig, long coat with brass buttons and breeches, but since that area was altered in the early 1980's he had no longer been spotted.

This spirit is also said to be seen in the Garricks Head, but who is he?

There could also be the spirit of a cleaner who worked there and likes to mess with things in the bar and at one point was leaving mysterious 'cleaned' areas..

In 1948 the spirit of a man was seen in evening dress.

There was also a chilling account of a young scruffy and ragged girl seen who would be crying, the witness reported that the crying would get louder around them as well, causing an audible phenomenon as well as visual..

Two of the most astonishing accounts where that of two occasions where the spirit of a soon to be or recently deceased person sppaered to people that knew them..

One account was from one of the nights of the Bath Blitz in April 1942, where a firewatcher was working at the theatre, his account tells of the bombs raining down all around and the explosions close by, at one point there was a let up in the bombardment and he saw a blue light flash at a window.

He looks out and sees his friend, making gestures at him, he thought it curious, but then he was gone, the bombardment continues and then a little later he gets a phone call and is told that sadly his friend who was working at the Francis Hotel just around the corner had died, killed instantly when the hotel took a direct hit from a bomb..

Another similar chilling tale is that of a female worker, who thought her friend had come to see her at work, she was conversing with her and chatting, then a little later mentioned she had come in to someone, who proceeded to tell her that the friend in question had actually died that morning, before the time the lady had seen her..

So with two similar cases of hauntings of this nature, it begs the question, does the area of the theatre have a portal of some kind? for these two types of phenomena to happen, with the deceased people having nothing really to do with the theatre other than. that there friends were there at their time of passing, or just after....

The Theatre is such a hotbed of paranormal activity, it would be really interesting to know if there are any more sigtings or activity in more recent years.

The book Paranormal Bath by Malcolm Cadey has all the full eye witness accounts and is an amazing and chilling read..

Available on Amazon.

The Electricity Obsessed Spirit of Milsom Street.. Bath History - Milsom Street was built in 1762 The buildings were originally grand town houses, but most are now used as shops, offices and banks. As a fashionable Georgian thoroughfare, Milsom Street is quoted in several of the works of Jane Austen, including Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Hauntings - For many years several of the shops have reported a presence of a spirit in their premises which seems to have an obsession with lights and saving electricity! This spirit is said to turn off lights at random on window displays and within the shop. Its not just the lights at the window displays, but lights in other parts of the building even if there are staff members present too.. It will also close doors and turn televisions on and off..! The spirit is thought to be that of a former occupant of the premises who was thought to be a bit strange in life as he had an obsession with turning lights off and closing doors...! I have also heard stories of a presence in Jollys stockroom as well.. also apparently there was a funeral directors in Jollys and in the basement there is a room known as the body room, which must have been the morgue, this is said to have a presence..

Roman Baths - Bath This is the most famous part of Bath, but are there any ghosts lurking around the ancient springs and underground tunnels of the Baths? History - The Roman Baths are a well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England. A temple was constructed on the site between 60-70AD in the first few decades of Roman Britain. Its presence led to the development of the small Roman urban settlement known as Aquae Sulis around the site. The Roman baths—designed for public bathing—were used until the end of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th Century AD. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the original Roman baths were in ruins a century later. The area around the natural springs was redeveloped several times during the Early and Late Middle Ages. The Roman Baths are preserved in four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House, and a museum which holds artefacts from Aquae Sulis. However, all buildings at street level date from the 19th century. It is now a major tourist attraction in the UK, and together with the Grand Pump Room. Archaeological evidence indicates that the site of the baths may have been a centre of worship used by Celts, the springs were dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). The temple was constructed in 60–70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius, engineers drove oak piles to provide a stable foundation into the mud and surrounded the spring with an irregular stone chamber lined with lead. In the 2nd century it was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted building, and included the caldarium (hot bath), tepidarium (lukewarm bath), and frigidarium (cold bath). After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the first decade of the 5th century, these fell into disrepair and were eventually lost due to silting up and flooding. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the original Roman baths were destroyed in the 6th century. About 130 curse tablets have been found, many of the curses are related to thefts of clothes whilst the victim was bathing. The baths have been modified on several occasions, including the 12th century and the 16th century, when the city corporation built a new bath (Queen's Bath) to the south of the spring. Anne of Denmark came to Bath twice for her health. The spring is now housed in 18th-century buildings, designed by architects John Wood, the Elder and John Wood, the Younger, father and son. Visitors drank the waters in the Grand Pump Room, a neo-classical salon which remains in use, both for taking the waters and for social functions. Victorian expansion of the baths complex followed the neo-classical tradition established by the Woods. Hauntings - There are no recorded stories of hauntings in the Roman Baths, not that can be found in the public domain so far as I have looked.. Although people who have worked there have said about an eerie feeling late at night, with one entry on Trip Advisor saying they had their hair pulled whilst there. There have been several sightings of Roman soldiers in the area, including in the basement under the Gainsborough Hotel, just across from the Baths, where Roman artefacts have been unearthed. An early Roman military presence has been found just to the North-East of the bath complex in the Walcot area of modern Bath. Not far from the crossing point of their road There are about half a dozen altar stones dedicated to various gods by men from nearly every Roman legion stationed in Britain, and almost an equal number of tombstones recording their earthly remains. There is, however, but a single inscription which mentions a Roman auxiliary regiment, on the tombstone of a retired cavalryman (RIB 159 infra). The presence of these military men here in a thriving Spa-town, where veteran soldiers and retired statesmen would

Poltergeists in Bath Poltergeist in German folklore means "noisy ghost" First recorded in the Dark Ages Activities include throwing objects, moving objects, banging, scratching, whistling, growling, emitting smells, singing and talking and can be violent and destructive. Some of this could be intelligent spirits which have turned violent and threatening for whatever reason like, if renovations have started or an object has been moved or disturbed. But it could also be in some cases another phenomena called a PK haunting- Psychokinesis. Which can be caused by a person in a household, subconsciously usually an adolescent girl, but it can also be found in boys and older adults. The subject is usually in the midst of emotional turmoil and an unconscious energy is created with most activity centre around that person, starting slowly and subtlety and then increasing in intensity. Usually these come and go as quickly as they start. Poltergeist activity is also the easiest to hoax, with so-called activity now being more and more inventive especially with the surge of social media Reported poltergeist activity in Bath includes the case at Cameley Green, Twerton, in the 1970's, Holloway, Belvedere, Camden Crescent, The Circus and the Salamander, The Curfew & Raven pubs. (See separate posts on this page) © Bath Paranormal

History- Some of the earliest records are found in a Saxon Charter, dated 956 AD, and in the Doomsday Book The parish of Bathampton is situated in Somerset, to the north-east of the City of Bath, and covers some 932 acres of which approximately 230 are known today as Bathampton Down – the hill which forms the southern most part of the parish. The area has been extensively quarried over many centuries – which has had much influence on the overall landscape and remnants of the quarries often referred to as Hampton Cliffs or Hampton Rocks. The Lord of the Manor who probably had the most impact on the parish was the famous Ralph Allen – business man, entrepreneur and local benefactor. He made his fortune reorganizing the postal service and put it to good use when he became involved in the building of Georgian Bath by opening local quarries and promoting the use of Bath Stone. During the building of the railway, however, four skeletons together with remains of pieces of metal and shot were found to the east of the above site and were believed to date to the Civil War. The line of the road from Bath, along Bathampton Lane, High Street and Tyning Lane is thought to be of Roman origin. Its course then ran on in a straight line from Tyning Lane across the meadows to the river where there was a ford leading to a trackway that passed uphill to Bathford. The Site of a Roman Villa, to the south of today’s High Street, was identified by the Rev. John Skinner in the 19th century and from his plans was believed to be under the present allotments. Geo-physics of the area has been inconclusive and it is now thought to be more to the east, under the adjacent area used as a playing field. The ground here has been greatly ‘made up’ which has prevented further attempts to identify the building by Geo-physics. Numerous archaeological finds have been found throughout the parish, including a Roman coffin and skeleton, silver coins in the vicinity of the Roman Villa and a nearby burial which revealed a brooch now in the Ashmolian Museum, Oxford. Other finds are held by the Roman Baths Museum, Bath. The George Inn is a Grade III Listed Building and was formerly a farmhouse dating to at least the 18th century or late 17th century. During the 18th and 19th century inquiries into unnatural deaths in the village were held here, and there are various reports as to where the body’s were kept, ranging from the cellar to a shed in the garden! Including that of Elsie Adeline Luke, whose skeletal remains were found in a cave at Hampton Rocks in 1893, two years after her disappearance, she was brutally murdered. Her murder remains unsolved to this day, she is buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas in the village. Hauntings - The pub is reputed to be haunted, by the spirit of Jeane Baptiste De Barre, who died in the pub after loosing at a duel, he asked to be taken to a pub for his last drink and died there, he appears occasionally around the bar and is seen in the form of shadows. But as for anywhere else, with such a rich history there could be many unreported hauntings in and around the village.. Source - Bathampton Village History - See links below

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A Victorian Villa with a Lady in Blue There is a beautiful Victorian Villa which stands within extensive grounds in an area close to the city centre Built possibly c1840, it appears for the first time on the 1844 map of Bath (House name and address withheld for privacy reasons)

During the 1930s & 1940's it gained the reputation of being haunted. The ghost of a lady was seen most frequently, wearing a blue dress and a bonnet, she had curly hair underneath her bonnet and she had a long nose and thin cheeks/ high cheekbones..

Whenever she did appear is was just fleetingly and to the observer she looked like she was bending down or dragging something which the witness could not see across the floor.

People in the house would also suddenly experience an extreme chill within the house, even when it was very hot weather outside. This was said to be associated with the spirit of an old man, who was never actually seen, so not sure how it was pinpointed as an old man?

The sounds of scratching outside bedroom doors was another phenomenon. as if something was trying to get into the room, although nothing ever made it into the rooms..

Research - On looking at the Bath Historical Directories, there is a lady who lived there called Louisa, in c1870, maybe its her? and a man lived there from 1875.

It would be interesting to know if this house still has activity...?

Source- Haunted Bath - David Brandon. Photo Credit - Lily Absinthe / Pinterest

Bath's Haunted Pubs Bath has many, very old pubs, like most towns & cities. A lot of them were old coaching inns too. This is a list of the reported haunted ones.. Do you know of any others that can be added to the list? The three most famous haunted pubs are The Garricks Head, next to the Theatre Royal, The Saracens Head, Broad Street and The Crystal Palace, Abbey Green. As well as The Westgate, Bath Tap. The Raven (Hatchetts) The Salamander, The Beehive - Belvedere & The Curfew in the city centre. Further out of the city you have The White Hart - Widcombe, Ye Old Farmhouse, The Devonshire Arms, The Crown & Anchor Weston, The Star Inn, Vineyards and the Crown Inn, Bathwick Most of the above have a separate posts on the page detailing the hauntings and history..

History - The land where the pub sits was originally farmland and was part of Bartons Farm. The earliest showing of the site is 1735, which shows it as a garden, the pub was then built on top of what was a garden wall. It was also called John Street at that point. During the second world war, pilots based at a nearby airfield used to frequent the pub and had left messages on the walls upstairs, these were sadly painted over in the 60's You can read a full and comprehensive history on the pubs website- link in comments. Hauntings - There is said to be the ghost of a grey lady said to haunt the cellar and legend says that a previous owner was said to have murdered his wife with an axe, hence the name Hatchetts... But I havent found any newspapers to substantiate this as yet.. A more common theory is that in the Regency period there was a popular drinking club in Picadilly, London named after its landlord where the Bath stage coaches would leave. Poltergeist activity is reported from banging doors to falling and breaking glasses. There is also an old well in the cellar where a young boy was said to have drowned and his ghost is said to have been felt or seen in there..

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(House No & Date Unknown - Road name withheld) Two sisters shared a house in Widcombe, the younger looked after the elder who was an invalid and was confined to her bed. This has been going on for years and they were the only occupants of the house it was therefore a bit of a surprise and an alarm when they started to hear strange noises within the house. One day the elder sister heard somebody with a severe cough coming from the passage beyond a closed door where she was sitting she leapt up to see what was going on and as it sounded like a female but it was not her sister coughing. She flung open the door and to her horror she saw the figure of an old lady in old fashion clothes wearing a mop cap. This old woman looked like a domestic servant and she had a very lined and very angry looking face with a very sinister looking look on it. The sister was dumb struck and didn't know what to do! The apparition in front of her waved her bony wizened hands backwards and forwards with one finger showing a very bright and shiny ring, she was mesmerised by the ring only to see that same hand turned into an equally bony fist.. Then this unwelcome guest gave a menacing gesture with her fist and then turned round and ran up the stairs with extraordinary speed for one so seemingly old and frail also making a bloodcurdling cackle as she did so . She followed up the stairs to see where she had gone and found no one there and her elder sister is just sound asleep, seemingly undisturbed by this. Some weeks passed and routine of the house return to normal, the other sister had not been able to get the horrible memory of the spirit she had seen out of her head, having shared her experience, the older sister thought that it was possibly a figment of the younger sisters imagination, but they agreed to keep it quiet. Then one day a relative came to stay and as they were settling down for the night the younger sister suddenly sat upright in her bed in her darkened bedroom and something had been thumping against her door terrified that it wasn't repetition of the previous experience she opened the door and there was a light on in the passage and she was confronted by a ghastly luminous figure of a semi human appearance. What didn't help was it this thing was naked and had a head that was dome like and was slavering at the mouth and had piercing eyes. The night's fearsome events were not over as she dashed past the loathsome spectre, just as a scream came from her nieces bedroom she burst through the door to see the young woman sat upright in her bed shaking clearly in terror she described how noise had awoken her, as she opened her eyes gaze into those of hag like creature glowing with devilish luminosity. She tried to comfort the hysterical young woman who was so frightened that they agreed they would share the bed for the rest of the night. They told the other sister the next morning of their experience and yet again, she had been oblivious to it all and had heard and seen nothing. Before the young lady left the next day they swapped notes about what they had seen, the sisters had not told her about the previous encounter. The horrendous head like creature never reappeared although it was still capable of making its malevolence presence felt which meant that the two sisters got through an awful lot of domestic servants! They usually left, some to not even pick up their wages, claiming that parts of the house they just couldn't enter and had to leave It is not recorded which era this was and it would be interesting to know if whether anything like this ever happened again since.. Source- Haunted Bath - David Brandon Picture Credit - Old hag by TurnerMohan on Deviant Art