Ghosts of Pluckley The Most Haunted Village in England

A little way across the fields from the village is the Elvey Farm Country Hotel. Originally a barn built in the 1400’s, an upper storey was added in the 16^th century and it was converted into a comfortable home. In the days when the building was a farmhouse, there were frequent sightings of a fair-haired man in his mid –20’s with a short-cropped beard. Doors were known to have opened mysteriously in the night, phantom footsteps were heard plodding along corridors, and lights were switched on by unseen hands. There is a tradition that a tenant farmer committed suicide at the farm in the 1850’s following the death of his wife and the failure of his business. Intriguingly a Japanese television crew who visited the hotel in the 1990’s brought with them a medium to contact whatever spirits haunted the building. No sooner had she climbed out of the car, than she suddenly felt the overwhelming sensation of someone drowning She could not have known that the hotel’s car park actually stood on the site of a pond which had long since been filled in!