Saturday, November 14, 2015

The most famous haunted houses in England


1. Blickling Hall in Norfolk


Before being beheaded by the guilllotine, Anne repeated this sentence again and again: 'Then I will become La Reine sans tête (headless Queen)"

"The two other ghosts, one is Sir John Fastolfe- model of Falstaff character in Shakespeare's famous musical with the same name and one is Sir Henry Hobart, politician, died in 1698 in a gun duel" - Jan Brookes, manager at Blicking Hall mansion confirmed carefully.

The encounters between ghosts and visitors often occur close to 19/5, Queen Anne's death anniversary. "The Queen's Phantom often appeared with a dripping blood head covered sloppily in her skirt, went through the wall right in front of living people then vanished immediately as if evaporated".

Is the birth place of this renowed cunning woman in royal history, Blicking Hall located in Aylsham of Norfolk under the supervision of National Trust since 1940. Recently, it was voted as the most famous haunted place in the nation.

2.Dunster Castle in Somerset


Ghost of a man dressed in green always lurking around the area that's (formely) stables. The noise of cavalry - was stationing here in 17th century - still make the castle custodial staff not able to sleep every night.

3. Quarry Bank cloth factory in Cheshire





As the oldest factory remains in England, Quarry Bank practice workshops is rumored to be the shelter of 'corporation' of ghosts of female factory workers.

4. Newton House castle in Carmarthenshire



18th century, forcibly engaged to someone she didn't love, Elinor Cavendish the maiden had fled to her home which is Newton House mansion in Dinefor, Carmarthenshirem. In the anger, her fiancé chased her to the place and strangled her to death.

Today, visitors often hear mumbling in emty room, sometimes encounter a young girl disppearing into the locker. More frightening, many times they feel like being squeezed on the neck by invisible hands.

5. Gibside Hall mansion in Tyne & Wear



Extremely abused by her husband count Strathmore, after death the ghost of Mary Eleanor Bowes can not escape from Gibside mansion. 'The mourning countess" often appeared momently in orange garden, and stroll in the locked attic room at night."

6. Lyme park in Cheshire



People around the region said sometimes a phantom funeral still silently passing by, around this Lyme park to mourn for Sir Piers Leigh, who died of serious injuries in the battle against French in Meaux 1422. Go after the funeral is a ghost dressed in white, probably the wife of the late marquess.

7. Lanhydrock farm in Cornwall



According to rumors the place is inhabited by many many ghosts, including the ghost of a man hanged by Royalists in civil war, right at the gate of the farm.

8. Hughenden villa in Bucks


The late prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the first lady Mary Anne seemed too attached to Hughenden villa in the countryside that when they died their ghosts have chosen this place as where to reside.

People often said they saw Disrael in the basement, in the smoking room or under the stairs with a big smile as if greeting guests.

9. Powis castle in Powys


Powis visitors said, they often saw a woman dressed in black and had the feeling of being touched by an invisible hand. Also in the backstage, the haunted piano still occasionally plays a serenade even though the room is empty and locked.

10. Belton House, Lincolnshire


Those who've seen 'Monsignor in black' said he's a tall man, courteous because he always wears full black, black suits, black hat and black coat. The man often appeared in the queen's bedroom in the palace.

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