Haunted Churches of England

Haunted Churches of England: Ghosts Ancient and Modern gathers reports attached to English churches, churchyards and other ecclesiastical sites. Graham J. McEwan considers accounts of phantom music, unexplained bells, chanting and apparitions, placing older traditions alongside more recent testimony.

Among the cases are a supposed phantom organist at St John the Apostle in Torquay, plainsong reportedly heard at St Margaret’s in East Wellow, and a bell said to have tolled at St Michael’s near Didlington Hall. The book treats these stories as reported experiences rather than settled fact, while also considering why churches have attracted ghost lore across the 19th and 20th centuries.