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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