Enfield is a London borough in North London, best known on The Vault as the setting of the Enfield Poltergeist, Britain's most extensively documented poltergeist case.
The Enfield Poltergeist
The borough's best-known case by far — see Enfield Poltergeist for the full account of the 1977–1979 investigation centred on the Hodgson family's council house on Green Street.
The Phantom Coach of Bell Lane
A horse-drawn coach, wheels and all, is said to travel above ground level along Bell Lane at high speed, its horses' hooves and wheels audible despite the coach itself appearing to float; the last widely reported sighting was in November 1961.[1] Local tradition traces the haunting to the 18th century, when the surrounding countryside was marshland and the road itself sat considerably higher than it does today, with speeding coaches occasionally veering off the highway and plunging into the swamp, sometimes fatally.[2]
The Hadley Road witch
Local legend holds that a woman living on Hadley Road was executed for witchcraft in 1622, and that her ghostly form returns to the lane on cold, misty nights; the Paranormal Database, a systematic UK-wide catalogue of reported hauntings, records the case among its entries for Enfield.[3]
Other reported sites
Paranormal investigator Jason Hollis, of the North London Paranormal Investigations team, has documented a wider range of reportedly haunted sites across the borough in his book Haunted Enfield, including Trent Park mansion, Forty Hall, Myddelton House, and Camlet Moat — a medieval moated site in Trent Park's woodland said to be watched over by a dark, silently observing figure, variously attributed to 12th-century nobleman Geoffrey de Mandeville or highwayman Dick Turpin.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "The Saturday Strangeness."Londonist.
- ↑ "The Haunting Of Bell Lane."Haunted Britain.
- ↑ "The Paranormal Database — Haunted Roads."Paranormal Database.
- ↑ "Enfield: 5 Haunted Places To Visit."Spooky Isles.