A vigil in Westwood Lodge

ALAN MURDIE goes back to 1972, a “bumper year” for a freer and easier style of ghost hunting

TREVOR WOOD / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO A new book – Britain’s Ghostly Heritage (2022) by John West – contains an enjoyable introduction by historic crime authority Stewart Evans. Best known for his bestselling studies of the Jack the Ripper murders (and one of a handful of writers actually worth reading on the enduring mystery), he reveals a long-standing side interest in ghost stories, especially those from East Anglia. In his introduction he shares a personal account of a ghost hunt he embarked upon in October 1972 while serving as a young police officer with the Suffolk Constabulary. Along with two fellow constables, he spent a night inside the reputedly haunted Westwood Lodge, an isolated manor house near Blythburgh in east Suffolk. His account recalls the style of independent, low-tech ghost…

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