Haunted Churches of England

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Michael in Rycote, Oxfordshire, dates to the 15th century and is known for its beautiful original features. Witch hunters tracked her down after rumours grew that Ursula was able to cure and inflict illnesses. More intriguingly, Antoine’s friend, voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, who often prayed at the church during her lifetime, is also considered to be one of the many spirits inside the cathedral.

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About one hundred years ago… “a large bullock managed to find its way in to the abandoned tower and squeeze itself up the narrow staircase to the roof.Located near Smallthorne is the Grade II listed Ford Green Hall, a wonderful example of a Tudor style country farmhouse. Her assumptions were confirmed a few days later when one of the villagers showed her around the sunlit church and related thesupposed-ghostly appearancesof the Rev Scott.

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Visitors have claimed to feel uneasy in the church’s vestibule, while others have claimed to hear ghostly bells ringing throughout the church. Other phenomena include kneeling figure outside the church, ghostly faces which appear at the windows in the tower, and disembodied voices which sound within the church ruins. An ancient burial ground was disturbed during the building of the bunker too and there is also believed to have been a suicide in the main stairwell. The history of the haunting of the Rectory can be conveniently divided into several time periods based on the various incumbents and their activities. A legend associated with the site is that the yew tree to the south of the chapel was planted at the coronation of King Stephen in 1135, after a seedling was brought from the garden of Gethsemane.The most commonly reported ghost at the church is that of an old lady who is seen walking through the main entrance on the north side of the building at exactly 6 o'clock when the church bells are ringing. As the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe, the stunning York Minster is believed to date back to 627 AD. The story, however, takes an unusual twist and it is claimed that one of the strongest cures she had that of curing warts, was her gold ring.