St. Michael’s on Pitsea Mount is rumoured to be haunted.  Children used to tell stories about a monk that hanged himself on the mount.  If you run around the church three times, backwards, you might get a glimpse of the monk, or a headless nun.

 

In the late 1980’s a group of youths were on Pitsea Mount when they saw two big black dogs.  The dogs copied each other’s movements.  The children, obviously terrified, ran to higher ground to get away only for the dogs to vanish as suddenly as they had appeared.

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