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

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A woman in Tudor dress reportedly haunts the chapel, as well as an apparition of a Grey Lady who walks outside the chapel and near the yew tree.

Michael in Rycote, Oxfordshire, dates to the 15th century and is known for its beautiful original features. She got her revenge by poisoning a birthday cake and killing two of the plantation owner’s daughters, but then she was hung by her fellow slaves.

If that was not enough, word has it that the abandoned church and its premises are vandalised and haunted by ghosts. The ship graveyard is immensely popular with scuba divers, with PADI dubbing it “one of the best wreck diving destinations on the planet. The legend goes that Stonehenge has energy, which travels through the ley lines to feed the supernatural power found in the ancient Inn. More terrifying, however, are the ghosts who purportedly roam the ruins of Whitby Abbey and the current St Mary’s Church. She claimed that the turf would need to be laid under the communion table for four days to lay all the ghosts to rest.

The small town of Whitby in Yorkshire is known as the setting of Bram Stoker’s famous novel Dracula. An earthquake caused the original civilization to crumble, but the complex was rediscovered by explorers in the 1890s. Enshrouded in thick vegetation, the All Saints Church has been an abode of mystery since the 20th century. People regularly reported seeing ghosts in the churchyard of St James’ Church in Lower Gornal in Staffordshire. Legends and ghost stories abound, including the tale of a former slave named Chloe, who had her ear chopped off after she was caught eavesdropping.The vicar and the astrologer kept a vigil in the church porch, only for the vicar to see himself among the ghostly procession. On an ill-fated day in June 1944, the Nazi soldiers entered this town, and for some unknown reason, separated the men from their women and children.