Beaulieu, Hampshire

While you’re more likely to come face to face with a Silver Ghost from the main museum  one of the most popular places in Beaulieu’s National Motor Museum, is Is haunted house which offers great stories from the staff who some of those have heard seen and even experienced a supernatural encounter.

In beaulie there have been several sightings of shadow figures, ghostly monks and orbs. In the village over the years. People have also heard mysterious Gregorian chanting and caught the smell of incense like such that come from and are used in old rituals.

The main House is also said to be haunted by one of Lord Montagu’s ancestors, Countess Isabella, she died in 1786. The Cistercian Abbey at Beaulieu – the biggest in the UK – was built in 1204 after King John made a gift of land to the monks.

According to the urban legend, he was driven to make the gesture of giving over the land to months after having a terrifying nightmare in which he was beaten and tortured by a group of monks, who were angered by his oppression of their community.

The mystery of the lady in blue

Beaulie  has long been told around Hampshire as one of the most haunted places out there by many of the locals.

a mysterious Lady in Blue has been caught on camera at Beaulie.
She appeared at Palace House, ancestral home of Lord Montagu, after visitors and most of the staff had left for the day.
A member of staff had just bought a new mobile phone and decided to test the camera by taking pictures of the historic building.

According to Hannah

“It wasn’t a frightening experience – quite the opposite – but if I’d seen a face I’d probably have dropped my phone and run.”

The lady blue seemed to have many links to one of the past inhabitants Countess Isabella. As she is seen wearing a gown or a similar dress to ones seen in the paintings which are hung around the house.

However this is as we know not the only haunted place in beaulie!

An ancient building called The Domus – used to host the annual estate dinner and other functions is said to be haunted by Brother Augustus.

The Rev Robert Frazer Powles, who died in 1939, claimed to know all the ghostly monks by name and even held a candlelit Mass on Christmas Eve for his phantom friends.

Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was interested in spiritualism and once held a séance at Palace House....interesting!