THE author of Modern Day Ghosts of England, Matthew Kenton, has listed to top five spooky spots in the county in time for Halloween.

  • The Perry Way, Frampton-on-Severn

Numerous sightings of an old, tall bearded man with short dark hair with grey patches have been confirmed on The Perry Way, B4071 in Frampton-on-Severn since the late 1960s.

More than 40 years ago was when the man first appeared in a family home shouting at a number of children asking them to leave ‘his house’.

Since then many people have witnessed a man with exactly the same description on the road outside the same home. He is believed to look legitimate before disappearing.

  • The Tudor Arms, Slimbridge

There is believed to be a bitter boy, roughly eleven years of age haunting The Tudor Arms in Slimbridge. The young man has been seen dressed in worn and dirty Victorian attire, with a hat, waistcoat, shirt, trousers, hobnail boots, like a typical labourer.

The landlord told of other sightings around the pub of a young man who matched the description and that some staff had refused to come back to work after encountering him because he looked so angry, it had left them shaken.

  • Charles Street, Cheltenham

Just beyond the lower end of Cheltenham High Street, is a row of terraced houses in a road called Charles Street. The rows of buildings were built in Georgian times for the impoverished, lower class workers. One night police were called to the property after reports of a crying child.

The landlady arrived to let police into the property where there was no trace of anybody in the building. The landlady revealed that she had lived at the property herself and that she moved out because of strange occurrences in the house.

She told the author that she was too concerned about the safety of her children to stay in the property.

  • London Road, Stroud

The author’s own experience of the unknown was at a Victorian terraced house, in London Road, Stroud.

At the age of fourteen he visited his friend’s house for the first time where he saw a young girl, about seven years old, in a white nightie at the top of the stairs, holding a little cotton doll.

He believed the girl to be his friend’s younger sister; in fact he did not have any siblings. Other visitors are believed to have seen the same girl.

  • Selsley Common, Stroud

Two young men crossing the B4066, Stroud to Dursley road, heading over to Jackdaw quarry, on the top of Selsley Common believe to have seen six large black Stallions speed from out of the woods pulling a large carriage.

Four big wheels, blacked out windows, masses of luggage fastened on the back and a man with a top hat and cape, sat outside on a drivers bench which was up at roof height, was the description of the carriage.

It also had four candle or oil lit lanterns at the front. It is believed these sorts of carriages were once used to carry a coffin to a funeral. Since the sighting was late at night the two men never understood why they saw it. Their questions remain unanswered.

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