Hunched Figure
Location: Belmesthorpe (Rutland) - Blue Bell Inn and surrounding area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A figure with a hunched back reputedly glides while heading towards a well. Local legend says the inn stands on the site of an old monastery, and occasionally the smell of incense can be detected.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2023-10-15
Last updated: 2023-10-15
ID: #15113
Knocks
Location: Edith Weston (Rutland) - Unnamed house in the village
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: December 1896
Further Comments: This home was subjected to loud knocks - the newspapers stated that 'persons of all ranks of society' had investigated and could not find an explanation for the sounds. On one occasion, witnesses heard knocking from a freshly varnished door, but no marks could be found.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2016-08-19
Last updated: 2022-04-16
ID: #12243
An old painting of Exton Hall.
Mistletoe Bough
Location: Exton (Rutland) - Exton Hall
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The decaying hall is one of several sites which is supposedly the site of the legend of the Mistletoe Bough - a bride who died on her wedding day after being locked in a chest during a game of hide and seek was found many years later in skeletal form.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2018-11-17
Last updated: 2018-11-17
ID: #13030
Everard Digby
Location: North Luffenham (Rutland) - North Luffenham Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1957
Further Comments: Although not seen for over fifty years, it was said that Digby, a member of the Gunpowder Plot would return home once a year.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2013-01-06
Last updated: 2013-01-06
ID: #11255
Stone Shower
Location: Oakham (Rutland) - Oakham School
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: Circa 1971
Further Comments: Matthew Manning claimed in his book The Link that the school had a poltergeist outbreak which focused on him, resulting in moving bunkbeds and showers of stones and pieces of concrete manifesting from nowhere.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2025-09-27
Last updated: 2025-09-27
ID: #16102
Priest
Location: Pilton (Rutland) - Former rectory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This grey ghost would be seen gazing from a window in the building, and occasionally banging to remind people of his presence.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2002-12-05
Last updated: 2002-12-05
ID: #3266
Hungry Witch
Location: Stoke Dry (Rutland) - Area around the church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This woman haunts the place where she was held against her will; denied food and water, it was not too long before she died.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-10-30
Last updated: 2002-10-30
ID: #2968
Small White Dog
Location: Stretton (Rutland) - Stocken Hall Farm (now part of an open prison?)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: This pallid mutt was seen by many people on the site who would try to interact with it, only realising it was a ghost when it vanished before they could touch it. The building was also home to a woman in black who would be seen moving quickly down a corridor, and a ghostly hanging body that dangled from a tree on the grounds.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2003-01-03
Last updated: 2003-01-03
ID: #3437
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