Norfolk, Rainham Hall
A picture taken there shows a vague, luminous figure on the staircase. The ghost is known as the Brown Lady and was seen by Indra Shira on September 19, 1936. The ghost of Lady Dorothy Townshend, sister of England�s first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, has haunted the hall for 200 years. She wears a brown brocade dress and most of her appearances were before 1870. A colonel chased her unsuccessfully. A captain shot her, but the bullets went through. She appeared at the Houghton estate, built by Sir Walpole and there frightened Prince Regent George IV.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's royal residence at Osborne
Sceances were held there.
The Borley Rectory is allegedly the most haunted house in England. In 1975, the BBC did an in-depth, two week survey of it.
London
Adelphi Theatre
Haunted by the ghost of William Terriss, a Victorian actor who was murdered there by a Richard Arbor Prince, a jealous rival, on December 16, 1897 during the run of Secret Service. Prince died in an insane asylum. Terriss�s ghost was first reported in 1928 when a stranger to the town saw a male figure dressed in gray Victorian clothes in Maiden Lane. The figure vanished suddenly and was later identified from a photograph.
Around this time, poltergeist phenomena manifested in the dressing room once used by Jessie Milward, Prince�s girlfriend when he died and leading lady in Secret Service. A comedy actress known as June felt light blows on her arms, a sensation of being grasped and the shaking of her chaise longue. She saw a greenish light above her mirror and heard two taps coming from behind it. Terriss used to tap Milward�s dressing room door twice with his cane whenever he passed it.
In 1962 night workmen saw the greenish light take the shape of a man and float across the stage. It opened the stage curtains and went into the stalls, tipping the seats as it went.
The Covent Garden Underground Station The ghost of William Terriss, an actor who was murdered at the Adelphi Theatre was seen drifting around the station dressed in a gray suit, old-fashioned collar and white gloves. It frightened witnesses. A spiritualist held a s�ance there and produced a sketch that looked like Terriss.
University College
There�s lots of rumors about the site because it�s so old. People always talk about ghosts and stuff. In the main drama studio a curtain hung with chains from the ceiling starting shaking violently about, as if someone were pulling it up and down. As students started talking about ghosts a full bottle of water on the floor shifted a good few feet forward and a remote control car that wasn't in use at the time moved towards its owner. Two students had been using black magic in the room as a warm up for their rehearsal.
Michelle Walsh
Thursday, January 30th 2003 - 05:37:14 AM
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West Kennet, Long Barrow The specter of a Druid priest allegedly attends the ancient tomb.
The ghost of a man dressed in Regency-style clothes appears in several rooms at 10 Downing Street.
There are fourteen ghosts that haunt the Sanford Orcas Manor near Sherborne in Dorset.
England's most haunted house is the Borley Rectory.
Well-documented poltergeist cases include the so-called Drummer of Tidworth case, in which drumming and banging sounds accompanied levitations and flying objects in the home of John Mompesson in Wiltshire, and the Enfield Poltergeist that appeared in the Harper family home in Middlesex and was responsible for coins falling from midair, teapots floating, furniture moving, and people being tossed out of chairs and beds.
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