St. Nicholas Church is said to be home to a ghost that attends every wedding there.  The story says that she was married in the church long ago, but fell down the stairs and broke her neck as she left with her new husband.

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The Shuck is said to be a demonic animal, like a large black dog with glowing red eyes, that is often seen across Anglia, but there are reports as far south as Basildon.

 

A large black animal has been reported in Billericay and Pitsea on separate occasions.  Another large animal, around 5 feet high but resembling a dog, has been seen walking from Vange towards Fobbing.

 

A few years later and another Shuck was seen at St Nicholas Church in Laindon.  A group of teens were sitting in a field when they were disturbed by a screeching noise in the bushes, which they took to be the prey of a fox.  What they actually saw was a huge black dog with glowing eyes that began to growl at them.