This Halloween, we asked our members for any eerie discoveries in their research. Here’s what they told us:

I once had someone ask me if I could help her find out about a ghost in her unused spare room that she was painting. It was a little girl but the family who owned the house had apparently only had boys. Spookily there was pink paint on the walls under the wallpaper. I did discover that a man had died in the house in 1937 but wasn’t able to identify the female ghost….

Jessica Feinstein

Monmouthshire’s most haunted house, Bailey pit near Monmouth, features in my family history. It is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of “a cripple and a murdered maid”. Read more about it here: https://jenniphillips.home.blog/2020/10/31/my-mason-ancestors-and-their-haunted-house-in-monmouthshire/

Jenni Phillips

The house I’m writing a book about – I sent a photo of a former owner-occupier to the current owner. I had received the picture from a descendant of the former all the way in Canada. The current owner said ‘Oh, I’ve met her; she walked across my bathroom’! The former owner lived in the house in the 1860s…

Elizabeth Walne