Old Bell Inn, High St, Buntingford, Herts, UK - Ghosts and Hauntings on Waymarking.com

The Old Bell Inn, now known as the Bell House gift shop, is known locally as ‘the haunted house’. The original building dated from 1450 and had several ghosts including a grey lady and a man dressed in black who would be seen walking down the stairs.

In the 1940s part of the inn was let out to three families. The families reported strange happenings, including footsteps coming from upstairs when there was no one there and the sound of a baby crying coming from one of the bedrooms.

One night one of the tenants, was woken with the feeling as of a great weight pressing down on him. He tried to get free and after a long struggle managed to roll out of bed. The next morning he was found asleep in the room, not in the bed, but hanging half out of the window. Another tenant woke in the middle of the night with the feeling as if hands were gripping his neck and choking him. One visitor from Canada was found the next morning asleep in a room he hadn’t gone to bed in.

During a séance organised by the Hertfordshire Mercury the spirit of Hannah Bedwell, who had once worked at the inn and fell pregnant out of wedlock, told her tragic tale.. She was frightened that she would lose her job and her lodgings so she killed the baby by lying on it. According to the tale Hannah was arrested and hanged for infanticide. It is the baby crying and Hannah’s lamentations that had been heard.

Public access?: Part of the Inn is now a gift shop, the rest is a private house. Website about the location and/or story: [Web Link] Visting hours: Not listed

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