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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?

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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 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..

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

(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