Woodchester Mansion

Illustration by Jules

If you can only imagine that romantic Gothic horror film you see on the big screen or TV, where folks stumble upon a haunted house in the forest with bats flying around with a full moon. Well this is the place!!

Photo by Jules

Name: The mansion
Locality: Woodchester, Gloucestershire GL10 3TS
Built: 1854
Owner: Conservation charities, Patron: HRH The Prince of Wales.
Grade I

The Mansions website : here

History: The mansion was built in the French Gothic revival style. It was designed by the famous architect Benjamin Bucknall, for William Leigh, using local Cotswold limestone. The work on the house took many years and in 1870, after 16 years work, the workers downed tools many of the 79 rooms unfinished.

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The mansion then fell into a state of disrepair and dereliction, with Victorian tools scattered across the site. Visitors can still see the Victorian tools in addition to half-carved gargoyles, doors leading nowhere and abruptly ending corridors.

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Ghostly manifestations: Headless horse, floating coffin, hooded figure, spirit of a french man, tall man has been seen outside, invisible children have been heard playing.

Ghostly anomalies: Strange banging, voices, poltergeist activity, visitors have been prodded and pushed, blue lights, someone crying.

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After a long day searching for allegedly haunted places in the area, we came across a sign for Woodchester. I persuaded my better half to drive down the muck drive to the house. It was a long walk down and it was very hot. We spent about 20 minutes walking and ended up in some woodland, I thought to myself, the mansion must be around here somewhere, we had taken a wrong turning and got slightly lost. Then I noticed this Cotswold stone looming through the thick bushes, we had found Woodchester Mansion.  We walked back on ourselves, it was worth the walk, the mansion is your typical haunted house straight out of a Gothic horror novel.

Featured on TV Programmes

Most Haunted Live

Ghost Hunters International

The Scariest Places On Earth

Great British Ghosts

Bats in the belfry

 Greater Horseshoe bats and lesser horseshoes.

Video cover of TV series Great British Ghosts

featuring Woodchester Mansion 

Illustrations by Jules

Thanks for taking the time to visit the site, we hope you enjoy reading the following pages that seem to be these days in a constant state of edit.

We are based in Yorkshire and now into the 5th year of our paranormal tour. We have travelled to nearly 60 alleged haunted locations so far. It has been a very exciting and needless to say expensive journey too. We feel very privileged to be able to travel around Britain visiting places that are allegedly haunted. We are on the road now nearly every month. This site is our personal travel diary of all the places we visit, write about and document and we want to share our ghostly and historical travel experiences with our readers.

The purpose of this site is to reach both, the general public and paranormal researchers in the hope of presenting the paranormal in an informative and entertaining way. Our site has rather an ecletic mix of all things spooky, not only the chronicles of my paranormal odysseys, but I've also included stories of medieval torture, tales of wandering shades around Britain's ancient past to the more serious of matters regarding paranormal research, parapsychology and psychical research. Whatever your passion befits regarding the subject, I hope you find something that  entertains or even advises. Enjoy!

Evidence?

Note: Pareidolia describes a psychological phenomenon involving vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) these descriptions are merely a suggestion of what we heard.

The use of paranormal equipment is known to be a form of pseudoscience.
In an attempt at getting spirit contact I use an Olympus DW-90 digital recorder (as shown on the right) I've been getting some responses like scratching but I am unsure if these are an anomaly of the recorder itself, if anyone else uses this piece of equipment and knows what these noise are please let me know as soon as you can - cheers.
Over the last few years we have had quite a lot of strange occurrences in the house, this is a recording I did in one of our rooms. We didn't notice the knocking sounds until I played it back on the software.  I was using an Olympus DW-90 digital recorder on normal mode and audacity software.
In this private terrace house I recorded what sounded like footsteps and cupboards doors opening and closing, there was definitely no one else in the house after I left.  On this recording, it does sound like a woman’s voice, the camera was left recording and we all vacated the house... when we got back we were shocked as to what we heard!  This was recorded in the room I had to sleep in all night!

Although Rich has a keener interest in UFO's than I do I captured this out of my bedroom window one night, not sure what it is, at first I was sure it was a police helicopter but we get copters over all the time but this looked totally different to what I was used to seeing, this had 3 lights and blue flashing ones that seemed to strobe to the ground in fine lines, 23 minutes hovering stationary in the sky. Like I said I thought it was a police helicopter but it was totally silent when it flew over my house which was very strange!



Recently it was cited by someone who I know who is in the army that this is a helicopter, apparently they do have stobing lights and quiet rotor blades. So, taking this at face fact and appealing to authority should I agree this is correct?