Tourism South East
INDEX feature Uncanny
Come, sit down with me and
listen:… Denise Smith has tales to make you shiver
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tales “T
his is just one small episode from an immensely rich store of macabre events and creepy apparitions in Canterbury”, says John Hippisley, a mine of information when it comes to spooks. He runs the Canterbury Ghost Tour, which he leads through the darkened streets of the City. Suitably dressed in top hat and black cape, he provides a commentary that combines his own ghost hunting experiences with a dose of topical humour. One of John’s stories is about a woman called Abigail, whose spirit, he says, remains upstairs in a building in Hawks Road. Apparently she committed suicide after years of abuse at the hands of her husband. However he got his come-uppance. Police drew the wrong conclusions and her husband was tried and hanged for Abigail’s murder.
Another is about an estate agent in St Margaret’s
Street. John tells of a girl dressed in grey clothing that on a number of occasions was seen entering through the front door, walking up the stairs and then disappearing. He says that later, the skeleton of a woman was found under fl oorboards, her bones wrapped in a piece of grey cloth.
The INDEX magazine September 2011
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