Capesthorne Hall. Photo by Gary Tacagni.
Capesthorne Hall is located in the county of Cheshire, U.K., and is the home of the Bromley-Davenport family, and as befits an old house, boasts several hauntings, one of them multiple. Below the family chapel is a vault, and a long silent line of spirits have been seen filing down into the vault, this is quite rare as there have been very few multiple sightings on record. Apparently there is also a Grey Lady who is not a part of the queue but haunts the main part of the building.
The most horrific apparition of them all occurred one winters night in 1958 when William Bromley-Davenport was awakened by his window rattling. Scrabbling at the glass "reaching from nowhere" so he said, was a disembodied hand, severed at the wrist. With quite remarkable courage, he promptly checked to see if it was real by throwing open the window, whereupon it promptly disappeared. There was nothing to be seen all the way down to the courtyard 30ft below. The apparition has not shown itself again and the fact remains whether or not it was a practical joke, but the height of the window and the lack of any window ledge seems to preclude this possibility; and in any case everyone strenuously denied any involvement at the time. Nevertheless Capesthorne is a house where things seem to happen, as a well known M.P. found out when he visited the family. Throughout the night his bedroom door continually opened and closed even after it had been wedged!
