in the 1930s, pointed a lost doctor to the bedroom of a lady who was about to give birth. Nice to know that ghosts aren’t always moody and unhelpful.
A visitation in the pews
St Mary’s Church, Beaminster, Dorset
In the spring of 1728 a boy from the school within the church, John Daniel, was found dead near his home. As he was known to suffer from fits, he was buried without an inquest.
A few days later, some schoolboys found a coffin in the church, with John Daniel sitting next to it. Presently, the apparition and coffin disappeared.
The magistrate was believed the boys, and had the body exhumed. John Daniel was found to have been strangled. No one was apprehended for the crime.
So it’s more of an historical haunting, but would you spend a night in St Mary’s?
Yorkshire’s most haunted inn
The Busby Stoop Inn, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
At this windswept Yorkshire pub, you can’t move at the bar for parapsychologists, such is the place’s renown.
The murderer Thomas Busby’s remains were hanged outside the pub after his execution in 1702. He had been the landlord, a boozy thief who killed his father-in-law with a hammer.
Busby cursed the chair he was dragged from by the cops, and anyone who sat in it afterward was said to have died soon afterward. The chair is now in a local museum, but Busby’s ghost is still spotted, his head drooping and a rope around his neck.
Celebrity ghosts: The Tower of London
As it was the location of violent, bloody tortures and executions for hundreds of years, it’s little wonder the Tower of London is London’s ghost-central.
And because of the erstwhile English penchant for