Mysterious Britain & Ireland

Category: Apparitions

Apparitions / Hauntings

Government House and the Apparition of Major Blomberg to the Governor of Dominica

Since 1978 Government House has been the home of the President of Dominica. It was commissioned by Sir William Young, 1st Baronet (Born 1724/5 – Died 1788), who was the first British Governor of Dominica, sworn in on 17 November 1770. There is a story about the Sir William Young being visited the ghost of Major Blomberg in his residence in Dominica.

Apparitions / Hauntings / Road Ghosts

A3 Burpham Ghost Crash (2002)

On 11 December 2002, at least one member of the public reported to the Surrey police that they had seen a car lose control and swerve off the A3 near the emergency slip road to Burpham. When the Police attended the scene they found a car in a ditch, and the remains of the driver, but the accident which had killed him had occurred five months previously.

Apparitions / Hauntings

Nunnery Drive, Thetford

The site of the Priory of St George in Thetford has at least two ghost associated with it, though I am unsure of any witness reports.

Apparitions / Hauntings

Nuns’ Bridges, Thetford

The Nuns’ Bridges took their name from the nearby nunnery (the Priory of St. George) and they carry the ancient trackway known as the Icknield Way over the Little Ouse River and the River Thet in Thetford. Once the site of the towns ducking stool during the middle ages, Nun’s Bridges has a story attached to it concerning the death of a young child and his ghost.

Apparitions / Haunted Hotels / Hauntings

Littlecote House Hotel, Hungerford

Part of the Warner Leisure group, the Littlecote House Hotel is a large Elizabethan country house with a reputation for being haunted. John Ingram in his ‘The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain (1897) gives the following account.

Apparitions / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings

The Plough@Eathorpe

The Plough Inn (now The Plough@Eathorpe) is an 18th century coaching house situated on the Fosse Way, the Roman road that linked Exeter with Lincoln. There are stories associated with the pub being haunted. The outline of a figure is said to have been reported walking across the bar area and one member of staff is thought to have been poked in the shoulder whilst mopping the floor.

Apparitions / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings

King’s Arms, Thetford

The Haunted Heritage trail leaflet for Thetford refers to a haunting in the old King’s Arms public house, stating that ‘An old tenant still talks of when he lived in this pub as a child. One day he was sitting with his grandmother when a lady dressed in black appeared in the corner of the room.

Apparitions / Hauntings

Falling Ghost, Dartford Heath

The following firsthand account of a haunt like experience dates from before the construction of the A2 and appeared on the Perception 9 website’s article about the many ghosts of Dartford Heath.

Apparitions / Hauntings

Mad Ghost, Dartford Heath

The following description of a haunting appears in the Perception 9 article on Dartford Heath. ‘The ‘Mad Ghost’ appears to be of 20th century origin and is very much associated with the asylum that once occupied the area around Bracton Lane.

Apparitions / Hauntings

Phantom Ritual

According to the Perception 9 article on Dartford Heath, ‘There also are groups of night haunting ghostly figures that have been witnessed, ranging from a witch’s coven that is in full ritual; their coven sited into the heath, just south of Shepherd’s Lane.