Occupants of Basildon Hall in the 1940s and 1950s were told by their mother that she had seen the ghost of a lady wearing a red cloak.

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They were told that the Hall had been used as an inn during the early 1880s and a worker there had put a candle in the top of a bottle which still contained some spirit.  The worker fell asleep and allowed the candle to burn down until part of the still burning wick fell into the spirit and caught light.  The fire spread and the lady died as a result.

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Objects in the hall would mysteriously disappear only to reappear in its correct months or even years later. 

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One evening a child was being settled into her cot as her mother was looking for a dinky feed bottle that was used to pacify the baby.  The family searched the hall but could not find it anywhere.

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Whilst the family searched the baby stopped crying.  The child’s grandmother had seen the ghost of the lady was looking over the cot and the feed bottle was found on the floor next to the cot.  It was definitely not there a few minutes earlier.

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One night the children were all sleeping in the front bedroom when the fireplace suddenly ignited.