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 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 and 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 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 happened at Kentwell.

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 drew of what had been conveyed to her.

Other Happenings Reported

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

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

If Tales of this sort interest you and you'd like to learn more and see the sites where incidents are reported as having taken place, join one of the Ghost Tours we run each year in October.

Scaresville

If on the other hand, you enjoy a scare visit us in Late October when we create Scaresville especially to give you a turn.  In 2007, when we did it for the first time, people said it was one of the best experiences of its sort they had ever encountered.  But its not for the sensitive or squeamish or young children.