Built in A.D. 657, the Abbey stands on top of a very tall mound and accessed by walking up a long and steep set of steps. It is haunted by Saint Hilda who founded the Abbey.
Her ghost appears in a high window wrapped in a shroud. The abbess in life used to have a habit of chasing snakes to the edge of the Cliff and then decapitate them with her whip. The apparition of a hearse like coach with a headless driver and pulled by four headless horses, races along the cliff near the Abbey then is seen to then plunge over the edge and into the sea.
The Ghost of Constance de Beverley is also said to haunt the Abbey. She was a nun who broke her sacred vows. Falling in love with a knight called Marmion, she was found out and bricked up alive in the dungeon of Whitby Abbey. Her poor ghost has been seen cowering and begging release in the winding stairway leading from the dungeon.
Yesterday we visited Whitby Abbey Castle, and we took alot of family photographs, at the time no body was there or around us and the ones that were we noticed but we got home and we’ve just examined the pictures we took properly and there’s atleast 2 spirits we have captured in our pictures, it’s very interesting but spooky at the same time, I would like to send them to you? Or has anyone else encountered this?
We would love to see the images taken, can you forward them onto ghostlyadmin@hauntedisland.co.uk please reference the post in your email. Thanks Team.
Hello,
I have a photo taken last weekend of the sun setting behind the Abbey. It was taken on my phone as it looked so unusual.
The sky at the time was so red. I only realised today that it has a figure walking on the shot. The figure is bright white head to toe but it was dark and there was nobody there.
Are you interested?
Rgds Ben.
Sent from my iPad
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