The Haunted House Beside the Mill: The Willington Ghost | British Hauntings & Paranormal History

For more than a decade, the Procter family and their visitors reported footsteps, violent knocking, moving beds and apparitions inside their home beside Willington Mill in Northumberland. The haunting became so notorious that sceptical surgeon Edward Drury spent the night there in 1840, only to leave after an encounter with a grey-clothed woman that he recorded in writing just days later.

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Research Links: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/2016/10/26/the-haunted-house-at-willington/ https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/tag/willington/ https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/page/22/ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_folk-lore_of_the_northern_counties_of_England_and_the_borders/Chapter_10 https://www.spr.ac.uk/9-hauntings-and-poltergeists https://twsitelines.info/SMR/1177 https://www.icysedgwick.com/willington-mill/ https://benbeck.co.uk/fh/collaterals/5Oa07cousins.html https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/willington-mill

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