Reports of women seeing a red monk walking through the mist on Church Lane as it headed in to the churchyard attracted the press in to the area in February 1964.

 

The monk was seen between 4am and 6am and one witness even cycled through him.

 

Bernard Lloyd, reverend at the time, had heard footsteps in the porch and received a report from a worried caller who had heard the 'clink of spades' in the graveyard.  When they went to the church to investigate they couldn't find anything to explain it.

 

Some years later it was claimed that a few friends had faked the spectre using a projector against the fog.

 

When James was at school in the 1990’s the stories of the monk were still being told.