Haunted Ancestral Homes 12: The Nun and the Lady of Watton; Or, The Two Spectres

11: The Itchell Ghost

This article comes from the April 12, 1892, issue of the Brechin Herald.

Watton Abbey (a.k.a. Watton Priory) still stands, but it is a private residence. Sites interested in the structure’s haunted history — such as Mysterious Britain & Ireland and Walking the Wolds— follow the Watton Abbey chapter in John Ingram’s The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain (1884). Ingram, in turn, gets his information from a newspaper series on Yorkshire lore.

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