Ghost Tours of Hertfordshire and Essex

Ghosts are ubiquitous! This guide has 62 tours, which incorporate over 280 towns and villages, and more than 800 sites. Directions are given in each tour to enable the investigator to find the sites. Map references have been included using Ordnance Survey Maps, together with the map numbers, to enable the investigator to find the haunted sites. The purpose of the guide is to enable the enthusiast to seek and observe. There are notes of interest and history notes as the counties are awash with fascinating stories and legends. 

So decide which tour you are going to tackle first. You may wish to meet the phantom army at Thundridge Church ruins, the screaming woman in Water Lane, Bishop's Stortford, the Witchfinder General, Mathew Hopkins at Manningtree, or maybe the ghostly monks carrying a coffin at Belchamp Walter.

Insanitus

Make it to resemble a man

Sans emotions of any kind

Ignorant of pain and pleasure

Cold: bereft of heart and soul

One to kill at my command.

From  ‘PANDORA’

Night Highway

One Friday afternoon, Steve and Mark Cross head off on an adventurous father and son weekend in the Australian bush. The long drive provides plenty of time to shake off the weekday woes, have a few laughs and soak up the rugged landscape. In the early hours of the morning, as they near their destination in a remote part of the country, through the endless darkness of the ‘night highway’, they notice a dull light on the road up ahead.

As they get closer to the light, it becomes painfully apparent that something is not right. What unfolds from that point will see Steve, Mark and others, encounter a group of locals who subject them to sinister and relentless demands, over and over. If they are to survive, they’ll need to push themselves beyond all physical, mental and emotional boundaries. Either way, life will never be the same.

The First Bride: Oblivion

Darkness, hate and deceit lay in the heart of London with corruption leaving devastation and human wreckage in its wake. Iuliana and the Countess head into a new era where power and vengeance reign supreme over the minds of heroes and villains alike. After receiving a formal request from a highly respectable member of society, they journey to London only to find death's friendly greeting waiting for them. Iuliana disappears and the Countess is tasked with the case of finding her, making her question not only her own sanity, but also the how strong her resolve is. Asylums, caves and mansions hold the fear and doubt that rattle within her mind and bloody hands leave her alone and bitter, as her mate becomes the property of an old nemesis.

The Inheritor

An unknown inheritance can be a dream come true. But for Callum Hopkins, this dream descended into a dark nightmare.

Callum is conflicted. He can either seize a chance to find happiness, belonging and power or follow his family’s vows on a path of brutal consequences where only the strong will be left standing.

The Inheritor is a story about a family sworn to protect and serve a secret society and a village determined to avenge a cruel dark past.

Spooks Lodge

Come to Spooks Lodge, come if you dare

Search for the secrets that are hidden there!

NOBODY you meet, you hold his hand.

Isn’t life wonderful? Isn’t it grand?

But turn a wrong corner, tread where spiders abide,

And it could be Rosie who walks by your side.

Stop for a chat, drink a warm cup of tea,

That blueberry muffin, was it really from me?

Frederick Saaler