In 1972 a couple moved into a dilapidated house in Glory Mill Lane. On their first night there they were woken up by a noise coming from downstairs. As they listened they heard the front door open and close followed by the sound of someone crossing the hall and climbing the stairs. The footsteps continued to the front bedroom followed by the sounds of the door opening and closing. When the young couple investigated there was no one in the room and the house was secure. Could this be the reason why eight families had occupied the house in just twelve years? Eventually they managed to fall asleep again only to be woken by the sounds of someone coming out of the bedroom, walking down the stairs and leaving by the front door.

This haunting was repeated on numerous occasions but this wasn’t the only thing that occurred. It seems that the couples daughter was also being affected but by a different haunting. Not long after they had moved in their daughter, who was four at the time, complained of the children at the bottom of her bed who made so much noise they woke her up. It seems the noises were so loud that their neighbour even came round to complain about them.

Whatever it was that was haunting the house did prove useful at times. On one occasion the couple were having the downstairs altered by removing a partition wall and the builder had gone off to lunch saying he would tidy up the mess he had made when he got back. The next minute the sound of someone clearing up could be heard. When they looked the floor had been swept and a neat pile of rubble had been left in the middle of the floor. A second incidence was very useful.

After a number of years the couple sold the house to friends who were also affected by the same haunting. One night one of the friends, who by then was living there on his own, was woken from sleep by a violent shake. He soon realised that the room was full of black smoke. When he investigated he found that a paraffin heater had a fault and was pouring out black smoke and the carpet all around it was burned away. But who had awakened him?

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Oxford Road

In the late 1800s a coach stopped at Beaconsfield to change horses then continue on its journey towards High Wycombe. It was a foggy night and at the bottom of a steep hill at Wooburn Moor the driver lost the road and ended up in a local pond. It is said that everyone on the coach lost their lives. For years afterwards, on the anniversary of the tragedy, the cries of the dying could be heard in the area.

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White Hill

On a misty winter’s night in 1936 a lorry driver and his companion were travelling along White Hill (the A40) when a man dressed in a black coat suddenly appeared in front of them. It was too late to stop and they couldn’t avoid hitting him. They watched the figure go under the truck, but when they went to look for the body there was nothing to be found. The driver informed the local police and was told, by the officer they talked to, that other people had reported the same thing happening to them on that stretch of road.

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