Great British Ghosts

Seasons

2011

7.6

A ghoulish guide to Great Britain. Host Michaela Strachan visits haunted locations around the country to recount the supernatural stories. Building owners, historians, paranormal experts and eyewitnesses explain sightings.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Mermaid Inn and Michelham Priory

Michaela travels to East Sussex to visit The Mermaid Inn, Rye. One of the oldest and reputedly most haunted inns in Britain. Then it is off to Michelham Priory in Hailsham, the site of 100s of reported ghost sightings.

S1 • E2

The New Inn and Chavenage House

Michaela travels to The New Inn in Gloucester to hear of the ghostly goings-on said to have been experienced there. In Tetbury she visits Chavenage House where it is said a coach has been seen in the drive driven by a headless man.

Woodchester Mansion and Prestbury Village

S1 • E3

Woodchester Mansion and Prestbury Village

In Gloucestershire, Michaela visits the extraordinary Woodchester Mansion near Nymphsfield. A Victorian Gothic Manor House that was never completed. Then it is off to Prestbury, said to be the most haunted village in England.

The Red Lion and Kelvedon Hatch Nuclear Bunker

S1 • E4

The Red Lion and Kelvedon Hatch Nuclear Bunker

Michaela travels to Essex to firstly visit Colchester's Red Lion Hotel said to be haunted by at least three ghosts. Then she visits a once secret nuclear bunker at Kelvedon Hatch near Brentwood that has seen some strange activity.

The Galleries of Justice and the Viaduct Tavern

S1 • E5

The Galleries of Justice and the Viaduct Tavern

First Michaela travels to Nottingham to visit the Galleries of Justice used as a court and jail since 1770 where many prisoners were executed. Then she's off to London's Viaduct Tavern in search of spirits of a non-alcoholic form.

S1 • E6

The Hellfire Caves and the Ostrich Inn

Michaela visits Buckinghamshire to firstly see the notorious caves at West Wycombe Park where the 'Hellfire Club' met. She then visits The Ostrich Inn, near Slough. Once a haunt of highwaymen and at least one murderous landlord.

The Black Swan Hotel and Ghost Tour of Devizes

S1 • E7

The Black Swan Hotel and Ghost Tour of Devizes

Michaela travels to the town of Devizes in Wiltshire where she first visits The Black Swan Hotel, once owned by a notorious highwayman. She then goes on a tour of the town visiting St Mary's Walk graveyard and the old town gaol.

The Grenadier and the Haunted London Ghost Tour

S1 • E8

The Grenadier and the Haunted London Ghost Tour

Michaela visits The Grenadier pub in London which is supposed to be haunted by a young officer. Then on a ghostly tour of the capital she visits the site where William Wallace was executed, a haunted elevator and Cripplegate.