PJ McGinty & Sons

15 Northgate Street
Ipswich
IP1 3BY

History

Paranormal Activity

PJ McGinty's in Northgate Street, Ipswich, is thought to be one of the most haunted pubs in the town. Last month, a group of ghost hunters organised a sleepover there and spoke of hearing barrels being moved in the basement and strange lights caught on camera.

Bell Inn

Ferry Road
Walberswick
Southwold
IP18 6TN

History

Paranormal Activity

The 600-year-old Bell pub in Walberswick boasts a number of apparitions. And the village is arguably the most haunted in the country, with its famous ghost being that of a large black dog, which prowls the road between the vicarage and the pub.

George Orwell would have to be its most famous ghost spotter when he wrote of seeing the spectre of a small stooping man in the summer of 1931.

Somerleyton Hall

Lowestoft
Suffolk

History

This enormous stately home is built out of red brick and is surrounded by acres of landscaped gardens. The current hall is an early Victorian mansion, built on the site of a Jacobean Manor, although there has been a house on the site since the thirteenth Century. Sir Peter Fitzosbert first built a manor house on the site in 1240 replacing an existing wooden structure, but the male line of the Fitzosbert family ended in 1306 but Isabella Fitzosbert married Sir Walter Jernegan, and the estate passed through 13 generations of the Jernegan family. The manor was rebuilt 1604 by the then-owner John Wentworth in a typically Tudor-Jacobean style and it remained pretty much unchanged until it was bought in 1842 by hugely successful building merchant Sir Morton Peto. During the Second World War the Ball Room, Oak Room and Conference Room were used as a hospital and the house was an advance dressing-station for the Army and then the Navy. At the beginning of the war the house also held many evacuees from London. The present Lord Somerleyton inherited the title in 1959, in 1978 he was appointed Lord-In-Waiting to the Queen.

Paranormal Activity

The cellar is said to be home to the ghost of a man called Joseph, he apparently doesn't like other people in his room and like to make this clearly known! A young girl has been spotted haunting bathroom in the Old Servant's Quarters and unexplained and sinister shadows are seen purposefully moving up and down the attic's corridors. Room 7 has been locked for twenty years because staff refuse to go in there and an apparition has been caught on camera from the window outside. A mysterious woman is said to haunt the master bedroom and a grey figure has been seen in the mirror of this room. The ghost of an old lady sits crying on the main stairs then walks down the stairs and falls in a heap at the bottom. She's also been seen by the fireplace in the main hall. It's thought that perhaps she's 'Martha' Lord Somerleyton's Great Great Grandmother who apparently died of grief following the death of her husband. An elderly man with a pipe has been spotted in the library and there have been reports of a lady standing near the window of the Oak Room, cleaning and singing an unrecognizable song. Outside the hall's walls the apparition of a woman holding a baby and crying has been seen sitting on the left seat of the pergola. The ghostly figure of a big man has been seen standing at the entrance to the maze. Also on the grounds is Fritton Lake, used by Allied forces in WW2. The spirit of a little girl has been seen roaming around the lake, while the dark shape of a man has been seen standing at the main gates.