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Reply ID 8948

Marshalls used to do a Ghost walk. I have heard that Folly Island is haunted (it was a burial ground for plague victims)

Reply ID 8951

I may be wrong but I think the chap who runs Marshalls produced a video about Hertford ghosts. He certainly produced one about Hertfords history.

Reply ID 8957

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I have heard that Folly Island is haunted

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Reply ID 8962

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Originally posted by Ewoowar
I may be wrong but I think the chap who runs Marshalls produced a video about Hertford ghosts. He certainly produced one about Hertfords history.

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Reply ID 8991

I mentioned one documented ghost story in a previous post on this forum:- "Take Baroosh, in Hertford for instance. The bar is built on a site close to the old courthouse, where prisoners sentenced to death were taken through the tunnels running underneath Baroosh. The tunnel split, one leading to the gallows the other to the cemetery - and according to legend the gaoler, too lazy to complete the walk, killed the prisoners in the tunnel before thaking them to the cemetery." http://www.hertford.net/yoursay/topic.php?id=283&whichpage=5 Source: Discovering Ghosts by Leon Metcalfe (citation from 1999 edition; book first published in 1972). http://www.hertford.net/yoursay/topic.php?id=283&whichpage=5

Reply ID 8996

Highway men and women stopped off in Hertford (evidence of coaching inns can be seen at the traffic lights of St Andrews Street, opposite Wiggingtons where the archway adjacent to the shop "East" used to be where the coaches would drive into.. I would be very surprised if there weren't a few ghosts rattling around Hertford.. Up in Tewin you can go out on a horse and get scared out of your wits on some of the rides that were allegedly used by Dick Turpin et al.. I've done it.. scarey stuff in the Autumn days when the wind blows and its getting dark..!

Reply ID 9003

The leaders of the Knights Templar were imprisoned in Hertford Castle, and some of them ended up in the Tower of London. For all we know, their spirits still walk the stone floors down there in the dungeons beneath our feet, unable to rest in peace until justice is done and their names are cleared... [;)] Scary stuff!! [:0]

Reply ID 9073

Not strictly ghosts, but in this month's Fortean Times (Ed 200; http://www.forteantimes.com) there is a clipping in the Weird UK article page 31 "10 Hertford, Hertfordshire In 1929, two young children saw a tiny pilot, in an appropriately tiny biplane, fly over their garden fence (nearly hitting a dustbin), and fly off again with a friendly wave."

Reply ID 9200

I heard that one of the old houses in west street is haunted ( going towards the town: just before the pub, first in a row of houses on the left, think its grey) aparently a little boy who used to live there said the bell would ring on its own and he would never go down in to the basement by him self said that he saw an old women there how he didn't know! creepy!!