Shadows in the Nave: A Guide to the Haunted Churches of England

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These all include ghosts and unexplainable events. This village gets called The Village of Witches. Canewdon Church photos St. Nicholas Church Canewdon Somewhat unsurprisingly after that, Elliott O’Donnell grew into being of a nervous disposition; the dark and the paranormal were the two things young Elliot feared above all else, yet he remained utterly fascinated by the latter. Eilean Donan in the Scottish Highlands has a very specific ghost, according to VisitScotland: a Spanish soldier who died in 1719, during the Jacobite rebellion. When the music died away the sound of a Man’s heavy footsteps were heard walking slowly up the aisle.

The Rector reported that the phenomena lasted only seconds but it was an unmistakable frantic embrace. The inaugural Boleyn went on to marry the daughter of the Duke of Norfolk, and the couple set about filling up Hever Castle with their offspring. Dagobert’s successor, a Spanish priest named Pere Antoine, is also said to haunt the cathedral. 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. It has widely been thought that O’Donnell fabricated many paranormal events he claimed to have borne witness to as a ghost hunter, or at the very least embellish them with an additional pinch of spooky poetic licence. Another ghost is said to come from the church’s belfry. During the time when the church almost exclusively catered to the area’s German Catholic population, a bell ringer named George Stelz was butchered by burglars who left their bloody handprints inside the church. Visitors have claimed to feel uneasy in the church’s vestibule, while others have claimed to hear ghostly bells ringing throughout the church.

8. Most Haunted Churches – St. Olaf’s Kirke

Located down a small path about half a mile from the main road, the church was left to ruin in 1890 after the Victorians decided it was inconveniently placed and built a new church in the centre of the village.

The bleeding marble is often considered one of the scariest things ever seen in churches. 4. Most Haunted Churches – St. Andrew’s on the Red Trip Advisor If you love being scared then this is the best guide - and if you’re a scaredy-cat here are all the places to avoid. The Cage, St Osyth Damien investigates paranormal activity across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, often collating stories from people who have experienced strange events. It is said that it is essentially impossible to spend a night in room 14 of The New World Inn in Great Warley, now known as De Rougemont Manor. In particular, St Nicholas’ Church is said to be haunted by two ghosts: the White Lady and the Red Lady. Legend says that the Red Lady was buried in the graveyard in the 12th century in a coffin made of lead. Her name denotes the single red rose that was placed in her hands.This is the very location where the bodies of Irish hero Brian Boru and his son Murrough were brought following the Battle of Clontarf. Later when the fisherman collected O’Donnell, he asked him specifically if he had anything untoward occur during his afternoon down at the river. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Staten Island is yet another Anglican/Episcopalian church that is widely believed to be haunted. A common stomping ground for paranormal investigators, the 18th-century church, which includes an equally frightening cemetery, is said to be home to disembodied voices, chimes, and other noises that cannot be readily explained by rational science.