Something that many people in the UK share is a belief in ghosts and the spirit world – a YouGov survey says that around 1 in 3 people believe in ghosts, so it is a significant number, and Britain with its long and often brutal history has a huge number of ghost stories.

When hauntings happen in your home, there can often be simple explanations for them. For example, if you are having problems with rattling pipes, it may be that you need to get someone like this boiler installation Cheltenham based company, HPR services to come and replace your boiler – however, there are many tales of hauntings in Britain’s homes that are a lot more difficult to explain…

The Enfield Poltergeist – Probably Britain’s most famous poltergeist case, the very normal suburb in North London became a place that became plagued with ghostly goings on. It started in 1977, when a mother and her four daughters started to report strange events in their home, from tapping noises to moving furniture.

Calling the police out of desperation, even one of the police officers is reported to have seen a chair move. What followed was months of more and more bizarre and frightening incidents, which ended with daughter Janet having to spend time in a psychiatric hospital due to the trauma.

30 East Drive – In the quiet Yorkshire town of Pontefract, is a very normal looking house with a mysterious history. Once again, the spooky goings on started in the 1970s, and the hauntings were so violent that the family abandoned the home completely and the house has not been lived in since.

Many ghost hunters travel to the house and report strange events and a malevolent atmosphere.

Tweenbrook Avenue Gloucester – Another normal house in a normal street – this time in Gloucester. With families living in the house being driven out by the hauntings at the address, and very sinister reports of sightings of a ghostly lady. Chillingly, the original family who reported the hauntings decades ago described the lady as being a shadow at first but taking the form of a lady over the time of the hauntings.