Derby the ghost city

Derby is probably the most haunted city in England. The city, dubbed ‘The Dead Centre of England’ has plenty of spooky surprises for visitors with over 1,000 reported ghost sightings each year throughout the city.

Some of the most well known haunted sights in the city include a house complete with its own ghost lodger, some floating trousers and the Dolphin pub built in 1532 has as many spirits in front of the bar as behind with no less than four ghost regulars making this ghost capital of England

Stories of ghostly sightings are not a modern phenonimon. Tales of bumps on the night stretch back over 500 years that we know of and could we go back far further than that. There isn’t a corner of the city where ghost stories and sightings can’t be found making it a ghost hunters dream.

Perhaps the most haunted building in Derby is the Derby Gaol or jail. The Gaol is home to some of the most frightening and most difficult to explain stories in the whole of the city. From stories of seeing ghostly figures gliding down corridors to large cell doors shutting of there own accord to slightly more sinister stories. One man claimed to see two figures hanging from the rafters as he walked in. A builder who was working on one of the cells recently had to leave several times after feeling sick while in the cell, a phenonimon experienced by many when they enter the cell including TV ghost hunter Yvette Fielding from 'Most Haunted’. Some have even felt something tight around their necks squeezing there throats, two women were even seen running from the cells, crying and clutching their necks after feeling their throats tighten. If you are feeling particularly adventurous you could even spend a night in the gaol on an all night vigil.

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