Lincoln, with its old cobbled streets and archaic buildings bathed in history may seem like the perfect setting for a blockbuster horror movie. However tales of fiction are one thing, but creepy stories of actual accounts are a whole lot scarier, and of these Lincoln has more than it’s fair share.
Here are some of it’s most haunted…
1. Pie’s good enough to die for
A 15th century building on Steep Hill, which is now called Brown’s Pie shop is said to be haunted by a poltergeist. A figure of a young boy is often seen by visitors and staff around the shop. The shop which was once a pub was also once frequented by T.E Laurence (Laurence of Arabia to you and me) and it’s also said you can still hear him counting money upstairs.
2.Lincoln’s own woman in black!
A few years ago a woman visiting Cobb Hall (the tower where public executions were held) with her husband and child, only just managed to save the toddler from being pushed down the stairs by a malevolent looking woman in a long black dress, who then promptly disappeared. For some time after this, when passing the tower on her way to work she would hear a voice telling her to come back on her own.
Needless to say she didn’t.
3.Open the gates!!
A horseman has been seen charging towards the gates of Lincoln castle shouting “open the gates! open the gates!” before disappearing as he reaches the closed castle gates. This
apparition is said to be the spirit of a horseman who was bringing a pardon for his friend but arrived too late and his friend had been executed.
4. Things that go bump in the night!
The Jew’s House restaurant on Steep Hill in Lincoln dates back to Norman times and is one of the oldest buildings in the city. This part of town was once the focal point for Lincoln’s Jewish community, until one night in 1255 an eight-year-old boy was found drowned. A Jewish man named Copin was arrested and under torture admitted the crime, which led to a wave of anti-Semitism resulting in the
torture and death of Copin and 18 other Jews. Since then, the Jew’s House is said to suffer from inexplicable thumps and rattles.