A Norwich woman has shared her story of living with a poltergeist.
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Ghostly footsteps, scratching at the wall, objects that flew from shelves, a piano playing itself, whispers in the bathroom, voices through the TV – a Norwich woman has shared her story of living with a poltergeist.
The house in question, an unremarkable Victorian terrace close to the crossroads formed by Old Palace Road, Dereham Road and Heigham Road was the site of countless strange occurrences over a 20-year period. It is also a stone’s throw from the last crossroads burial site in the Norwich area where those who had taken their own lives and those who had been executed were laid to rest.
Ghostly footsteps, scratching at the wall, objects that flew from shelves, a piano playing itself, whispers in the bathroom, voices through the TV – a Norwich woman has shared her story of living with a poltergeist.
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The grandeur of Norfolk s own Downton Abbey, Costessey Hall in Old Costessey
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Some are in ruins, some are lost to time, others are guarded by ghosts: Norfolk once boasted dozens of county houses and halls, many of which fell to the wrecking ball.
Weird Norfolk has chosen 10 favourites that remain only as ruins, photographs or distant memories, including former sanitoriums and asylums, scenes of dreadful murders and homes of ghosts destined to walk the invisible corridors eternally.
Boyland Hall
There are believed to be around 200 lost villages in Norfolk and Boyland – close to Morningthorpe – is one of their number. Lost to time, only echoes of its past remain. Boyland Hall was a large Elizabethan house to the north of the village which was rebuilt in the 19th century in the Gothic Revival style but fell into disrepair after the death of its owner in 1930 and was demolished in 1947. Once a small medieval village, Boyland has been swallowed by the parishes wh