The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, a small parish church in the village of Clophill, Bedfordshire, may be the most infamous house of worship in all of England. Believed to be some 400 years old, St. Mary’s stood abandoned for years until it was renovated in the 1840s. The Victorian-era church initially housed a very small congregation, but few decided to remain once the rumor mills started turning. Word in the area claimed that the church was not built in proper alignment with Jerusalem, thereby deconsecrating the soil. Another rumor held that the new church was built atop a former leper colony. Tittensor’s Beech Caves is said to be haunted by horrifying entities that clearly don’t want people there. Many people believe it to be the spirit of the former owner Anne Lisle, although some believe it to be a nun or a murder victim from the 18th century. While the haunting of the ruins remains vague, paranormal teams have said to have collected evidence that spirits occupy the area. Poltergeist activity has resulted in a table and chair moving in the nursery and people have reported a ghostly figure in an upstairs window.

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Matthews Hopkins was based in Manningtree and Mistley during a dark period of English history – the time of brutal witch-hunts. This might help explain the October night in the late 1980s when a couple driving through Eastchurch came across a woman standing in the road, wrapped in wool. Rumours of a phantom began in 1968, and usually involved a bride-to-be, thought have been killed in 1965, flagging down cars and asking for a lift. Many visitors to these locations have reported ghostly sights such as phantom horse-drawn carriages, screams from buried alive victims and sinister murdered wives and mistresses.

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From the crying of a phantom baby, to women dressed in long out-of-fashion clothing to an eighteenth century man making non-existent cups of tea, you’re guaranteed a sleepless night here. Surviving members of the Bull family including several of the Rev Harry Bull’s maiden sisters, moved out of the house to the nearby village of Great Cornard, leaving the Rectory empty and abandoned. Local Borley legend indicates paranormal activity

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The ghost sits at the base of the bed and watches the occupant - before disappearing into thin air. During a vigil at the inn in 2004, paranormal investigators heard noises coming from the cellar and photographed a spirit they believed to be that of the drowned man.Few would have realised that this marked the beginning of decades of investigation, debate and intrigue. Ghost hunting had and never could be the same again. Borley Rectory’slong history of haunting