Haunted St Albans

Haunted St Albans gathers reported supernatural experiences from the city and its surrounding area, arranging them by location and setting. Paul Adams covers roads, open spaces, public houses, hostelries, houses and historic buildings, alongside accounts connected with the Abbey Church and cathedral. The material ranges from older traditions to more recent testimony.

Among the reported cases are phantom monks seen in daylight at St Albans Cathedral, fighting ghosts associated with Battlefield House and the apparition of a legless butler. Shorter accounts broaden the survey with further sightings and unexplained incidents, before a concluding section considers how St Albans’s ghost stories have been interpreted and assessed.