Ten Ghosts of England - Bedfordshire

Starting off the Ten ghosts of England series, today we look at Bedfordshire

No 1 – The Elderly Woman

In Barton le Clay – the former owner of Waterside Mill, reported on two occasions encountering an old lady with long grey hair, the lady would wave a bony finger at him as though she wanted him to follower her, of course he didn't, so we will never know what she truly wanted.

No 2 – The Hanging Man

Along Church Street in Ampthill, a hairdressers was an likely place to see a ghostly manifestation, but when a customer reported seeing a man hanging from an upstairs room anrr exorcist was called out, the ceremony appears to have been successful as the hanging man hasn't been seen since.

No 3 – A Gliding Girl

At Bedfordshire Hospital, in 2010, three members of staff reported seeing a lady in a long dress walk through a store room wall, eerily in 1972, two nurses reported witnessing an attractive looking girl in a coat and long dress glide into a toilet located on the south wing of the hospital, as they followed her into the room they soon discovered that the room was empty. Shuffling footsteps have also been said to haunt The Shand Ward in the hospital.

No 4 – A Hooded Monk

In 1969 in Clophill, a man out delivering newspapers witnessed a hooded monk on horse back holding a lantern in the early hours of the morning, he says that the horse walk right through his car

No 5 – Black Tom

A nineteenth century highwayman was executed by hanging and buried at the Junction of Tavistock Street, Clapham Road and Union Street with a stake driven through his heart to prevent him from returning, though the efforts appeared to have been in vein as Black Tom and another unnamed ghost have been seen numerous times since his death. On one occasion a witness claims to have seen a gruesome man with a broken neck staggering down the street before vanishing into nothing.

No 6 – Stable Boy

After falling to his death from a hayloft, a stable boy now haunts the Kitchen to the Falcon Inn in Bletsoe, the stable boy is blamed for the disappearance of items that go missing for no real reason, and often reappearing as inexplicably.

No 7 – A vanishing Car

In Comworth – driving down Honeydon Road, 5 people in a car spotted another car in front of them shortly in the distance, after making a few turns in the road and coming to a clearing they notice that the car in front had completely disappeared, with no where to turn off or to pull over. A speeding driver with no regard for safety, or a ghostly apparition in car form?

No 8 – The Green Lady

In Church Walk Kempstone, a Green Lady is reported to appear when mist rolls off the near by river, she is believed to have drown in the lake, but no body really knows who she is.

No 9 – A Running Shadow

In Luton on Old Bedford Road at the Warden Park Entrance, two witnesses driving home from work, spotted a tall Black Shadow run through the railings of the park on to the pavement, the driver thinking the figure would continue running into the road did an emergency stop, but the black shadowed figure disappeared. Both Witnesses describe the figure to be featureless, and looking like nothing more than a tall shadow.

No 10 – The Hitchhiker

Everywhere has a similar story to this one, about a hitchhicker. In Leighton Buzzard – Peddar's Lane to Station Road area a van driver reports that he had picked up a young dark haired man that disappeared just after a few minutes into the journey.

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