Kentwell Ghost Tales

These Notes are a response to the many visitors who ask: Have you any ghosts?

We regret we have no pictures to illustrate the topic.

Early Story

The main story of a wandering lady has been about for several hundred years. It was published as a ballad in 1838, written by the nephew of the then ower, Robert Hart Logan. It is said that he told the old story, somewhat embellished, at dinner one day and afterwards wrote it down. (Rather like Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein a few years previously.) The room associated with this tale is the Victorian Room which has over the years earned the soubriquet of the haunted room. No, none of the current family have encountered the lady.

Mistletoe Bough Legend

This has been placed at several old Houses in Southern England. One gentleman visitor said his mother had told him as a child in the 1890s, that it had happened at Kentwell. Perhaps it did.

What People sense

Many people have reported strange sensations in one or two rooms at Kentwell. One visitor conveyed what she had sensed by telepathy to a friend in Canada who sent us a picture she had drawn of what had been conveyed to her. The most common report we receive is of a room (not always the same one) being sensed as full of people.

Other Happenings Reported

Nearly every year we learn new stories of strange occurrences which we add to those that have been reported previously.

Do you believe what you read in the Papers ?

There was a report in the local paper some years ago of a motorist whose excuse for having driven carelessly into a tree (or was it a ditch ?) was that 'the Kentwell Ghost' had crossed the road in front of him. No description of the ghost was given. He was convicted.

Ghost Walks

Occasionally, we run Ghost Walk Tours usually in October.  The Tour goes round the outside and inside where strange happenings have been reported to tell the relevant tale.

Scaresville

If on the other hand, you enjoy being scared visit us in Late October when our Scaresville event is running.  This has been designed especially to give you a turn.  It is not for the sensitive or squeamish or faint-hearted or young children.