United Kingdom England Denham Church
Denham St. Mary Suffolk, England
Denham Church stands in the small village of Denham St. Mary in Suffolk. Nearby stands Denham Hall, which is divided into a number of flats. The church, hall, and surrounding areas have been the scene of many paranormal events over the years.
There are at least 11 different ghosts in and around the hall, including a monk who walks an old footpath, a lady who has been spotted walking over a nearby bridge, and another ghostly lady who walks out of the church gate just as you walk past.
A misty figure that floats down a steep hill leading from the church has also been witnessed, as have two very evil-looking red eyes in the steep bank of the same hill.
Two other ghostly ladies have been seen here—one walks up the path of an old cottage at the foot of the hill, and the other is seen wearing Victorian clothes and walking the gardens of the hall in daylight.
Suffolk Paranormal Investigations have received a recent report regarding a farm worker’s ghost that has been seen by locals around the farm building. He died around 1920 in a rather nasty accident in which he lost his head under the wheels of a horse-drawn cart. It is said his ghost is headless.
A number of strange things have been reported inside the hall, including small colored lights which move around the walls, a bloodstain on the floor which comes and goes, and footsteps and whispering that can be heard within. But by far the most interesting haunting is “The Chain” that can be heard dragging along the road from the church. It stops at a spot that was a crossroads many years ago. When it stops, a luminous ball hovers around one meter above the ground for five or six minutes before it fades away.
We have researched this case and found a very interesting story to this haunting.
A young girl, about 16 years old, lived in the village, and she was very beautiful. All the local men fell in love with her. Their wives and girlfriends were not happy, so they said she must be a Witch as she was bewitching the men folk.
She was found guilty of witchcraft and locked in the church for a number of days awaiting her fate. She was bound in chains, dragged down the road, and thrown into a well to drown; her body was then dragged along the road and buried at the crossroads.
Many years later, she was dug up by workmen, and they found that her remains were still in chains. She was given a full Christian burial in a churchyard near Bury Street in Edmunds, but the ghostly chains can be heard to this day.
