To get into the Halloween spirit, we've rounded up the most haunted places in Watford and the surrounding areas - from Cassiobury Park to Leavesden…
The Grand Union Canal is said to be haunted by the ghost of Jack O'Cassiobury. Picture: Watford Museum
In the 18th century, Jack was a black servant employed by a wealthy woman living beside the canal. She ordered him to harass people travelling by barge as they passed through Ironbridge Lock, as she didn’t like them coming so close to her home. When they arrived, there was no one there, though there are no windows and the stack can only be reached by a single corridor.on Rickmansworth Road – now developed for housing – are said to be haunted by a violent ghost known only as Fred.
Almunia’s wife was so frightened by the apparition that the footballer obtained special permission to go home from training at lunch so she did not have to be alone in the house for too long.Churches are often the site of creepy goings-on. St Lawrence’s Church in Abbots Langley is said to be haunted by the ghost of Mary Ann Trebble, a housekeeper at the vicarage before World War I.
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