Chicksands

The Ghost of Chicksands


The base I was stationed at in England, RAF Chicksands (near Bedford), supposedly had a haunted priory on it. As the story went, a nun had been impregnated by one of the local monks and walled up alive when her transgressions resulted in her pregnancy. The building, which still stands on the base after several hundred years, was used for lodging American airmen temporarily, and many of them reportedly saw the ghost.

Another local story was that the priory was connected via an underground tunnel to the ruins of a church a few miles away. This church, incidentally, was used by local witches for ceremonies of some sort on Halloween. On one occasion, I and one of my friends discovered a spot where the floor of the priory had collapsed above one of the cellars, and entered the building at night to look for the entrance to the rumored tunnel. We didn't find the tunnel or see the ghost, but received quite a scare when a security policeman, on his nightly rounds, tried the door next to where we were standing.


Contributed by Brian Noller
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