This Haunted Isle

This Haunted Isle examines ghost stories and legends attached to Britain’s historic buildings, including houses, castles and mansions whose architecture and past have encouraged generations of haunting reports. Peter Underwood presents these traditions as testimony and local lore, while noting that the existence of ghosts has not been proved.

One featured case is Ightham Mote in Kent, where macabre stories follow the discovery of an ancient female skeleton behind a sealed doorway in 1872. The account also records reports of an unexplained coldness in the area, said to persist even among people unaware of the story, and claims that an attempted exorcism did not remove the peculiar chill. The book concludes with a bibliography and index.