Tis the Season to be feeling Spooky!
Over the years, the population has contained ghost stories and talking about ghouls until October time when Halloween is amongst us.
Old tradition was that you told spooky ghost stories around the fire on Christmas Eve.. So, I thought it would be nice to write on 3 Hauntings based in the UK you can read today on Christmas Eve.
All three stories are Hauntings that alledgally occur on Christmas Eve……
Hope you Enjoy and Have a Magical Christmas Everyone from all of us here at Paranormal Hauntings.
THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN AT ROOS HALL
Roos Hall in Suffolk lays claim to being one of the most haunted houses in England. The 16th century hall has a number of sinister connections, including a gruesome “hanging tree”—an oak tree planted at the site of the old gibbet where numerous criminals were hung. To make things even spookier, inside one of the building’s cupboards, the mark of a devil’s cloven hoof is said to be imprinted. But perhaps the most dramatic haunting is supposed to happen every Christmas Eve: Legend has it that a headless horseman clatters down the driveway with his four black horses pulling a phantom coach, terrifying anyone who witnesses him.
THE APPARITION OF A MURDERED HIGHWAYMAN IN KENT
One Christmas Eve near the close of the 18th century, a notorious highwayman named Gilbert is said to have stopped a coach and horses on the Hawkhurst Road in Marden, Kent. The coach contained a young lady and her father, and Gilbert ordered them out onto the road. Just as the girl stepped out, the horses bolted, taking the coach and her father with them. The young lady was left alone on the dark road with the highwayman, and as she looked into his face, she recognized him as the very same highwayman who had murdered her brother some years earlier. Horrified, she drew a hidden knife from her bag and stabbed Gilbert in the side, fleeing into the bushes. When the horses were calmed and the coach returned a little while later, the men discovered the bloodied body of the highwayman, and buried him at the side of the road. When villagers found the woman in the forest the next day, she had gone completely mad. They avoided that spot in the road for many years, and it’s said that every Christmas Eve, the bloody scene is silently replayed to all that pass through.
THE GHOSTLY QUEEN RETURNING HOME AT HEVER CASTLE
Anne Boleyn is notorious as the second of King Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives. To marry Anne, Henry spent years seeking a divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and went on to sever England’s relationship with the Catholic Church in Rome, forever changing the course of British history. Despite the lengths he went to ensnare her, Henry soon grew tired of Anne and, choosing to believe the idle gossip surrounding her, had her beheaded in 1536. A number of reports exist of the ghost of Anne Boleyn, but perhaps the most affecting is the version said to haunt her childhood home, Hever Castle in Kent. Some say that every Christmas Eve, the spectral figure of Anne Boleyn can be seen slowly gliding across the bridge over the river Eden toward her family home, where she was at her happiest.3 Christmas Eve Hauntings | UK – Paranormal Hauntings