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Posted: 21-02-2005 13:13 Post subject:

Local hearsay says Reculver Towers is haunted but most old ruins have spook legends associated with them.

Posted: 28-10-2005 12:29 Post subject:

Posted: 31-10-2005 16:25 Post subject:

I've heard the same story about Reculver Towers. I used to live a couple of miles down the road (Herne Bay), and it's pretty eerie place even on a nice day. Have you ever seen "The Medusa Touch"? a scene or two were filmed near there.

My mother was born and brought up in Kent, and probably knows more about the place then me. She also told me a couple of tales about Aylesford Priory. I'll ask her when I see her next and post the results here.

Posted: 31-10-2005 16:35 Post subject:

Yithian, I've just remembered another place you might want check out; Cobham Mausoleum (in the grounds of Cobham Hall, I believe) I remember my mum telling me about that, can't remember a thing about it, but if I do find anything I'll post it here.

Posted: 31-10-2005 17:10 Post subject:

...........remembered something else; Dode Church (near Luddesdown). I tried putting it into Google to see what would come up. Apparently it's about 900 years old and is all that remains of a lost medieval village (it was apparently wiped out during the Black Death). There's supposed to be a "sacred spring" in the churchyard, dating from a pagan temple that stood there before the church. Could be worth checking out...........hope this helps!

Posted: 31-10-2005 17:53 Post subject:

Posted: 23-04-2007 14:28 Post subject: 2 strange tales from the Medway towns....

Hi, I grew up in the Medway towns, and although I was away for a long time I am now back for my sins!

Anyway when i was growing up, their are 2 stories which I am having trouble tracing info on.

The first is that I was told by a school friend that his Mum had seen in the papers that a UFO had crashed into the river Medway. It would have been in the 60's or the 70's I think if it happened at all, he did have a creative imagination! If anyoes have info on this though do let me know.

The second has a bit more basis in fact. I have a cutting from the Evening Post, which was the local rag at the time, since swallowed by the Kent messenger group I think. The story is a speculative story about a hungarian prince who was killed in a mugging at Gads Hill and buried in Rochester Cathederal. The cutting says that the tomb has since been lost, walled up, and made reference to the Prince was related to the Dracul family, so you can imagine the headline. " Is Dracula buried in Rochester Castle?".....

If anyone has any info on either of these or any more stories from around Kent please let me know....

Posted: 23-04-2007 14:42 Post subject: Cobham Mausoleum

Just saw the thread about Cobham Mausoleum. I grew up near it and visited it regularly, I even slept in it one night!

It was built on the grounds of the Lord Darnley's estate, who's house is Cobham Hall, now a posh girls school. It was never used as the bishop of rochester wouldn't consecrate it as he wanted the family members to be buried in the cathederal, and so get the money tooo!

Another very interesting little tomb, in the woods near the Mausoleum is Lord Darnleys Toe's Tomb. It is in the middle of a group of yew trees hidden off the track leading up to the Mausoleum if you are walking from Strood or Cuxton. The story goes that either some of the Lord's foresters, or farmers, depending on the version, where cutting trees or bailng hay, and he wasn't happy with it. He decided to show them how to do it, and took the axe/pitchfork and in swinging it missed and chopped of his toe. He then died of Tetinus, but his toe was buried where it fell...

Posted: 30-04-2007 16:53 Post subject:

Ahh the Theatre Royal ghost. He popped up in front of me during one of our end of year college performances of Equus. He made it very difficult to concentrate, it's not what one needs when one is trying to act daaahrling.

Posted: 30-10-2011 12:57 Post subject:

Hi, this is my first post and I am not sure if this belongs here so feel free to move it if it doesn't.

I live near Folkestone and whenever we drove down the A260 past J13 of the M20 there was a particular hill which my small Grand-daughter would insist had a castle on it. The rest of us could see nothing but she always pointed it out and wanted to go and see it. This went on for several years.

I asked around and the name of this place is Castle Hill.

From Wikipedia:
“Folkestone Castle stood on a spur of the North Downs to the north of the town of Folkestone, Kent (grid reference TR214380).
This was Norman castle on a natural mound which was in existence in the late 11th and 12th centuries. It was excavated in 1878 by Augustus Pitt Rivers and this has been claimed to be the first excavation of a medieval site in Britain using scientific methods...”

Posted: 30-10-2011 13:37 Post subject:

Fascinating!
She actually saw this castle?

Posted: 30-10-2011 14:28 Post subject:

Yes, she would point and say things like "look at the castle, can we go there?" This began when she was about three, in 2003, and carried on until 2006/7.
Obviously she wasn't too articulate but was adamant that it was there and thought we were teasing her by saying we couldn't see it. This happened on at least half-a-dozen occasions with various family members in the car.

Now I come to think of it, she stopped mentioning it around the time of the first earthquake in April 2007.