Haunted Berkshire

Haunted Berkshire gathers reported ghost sightings from across one of England’s oldest counties, presenting a varied cast of alleged apparitions and haunted locations. Roger Long’s subjects include the shades of kings, queens and dukes, along with sobbing maidens and moaning men said to appear in castles, mansions, churchyards, cottages, follies and grottoes.

The accounts range from stories of murdered children to reports involving murderous policemen and thieving highwaymen, giving Berkshire’s ghost lore a distinctly grim historical edge. Alongside these darker figures are supposedly less threatening phantoms, including vicars, landlords and nuns. Together, the cases record the county’s longstanding traditions of reported supernatural encounters in places both grand and domestic.