St Martins’s Churchyard, Leicester

Two houses in St. Martin’s churchyard were once very much haunted. I have not been able to get any details regarding one, but, regarding the other, all the bells used to ring without visible cause or any traceable agency. A Leicester lady correspondent informed me that the churchyard itself was haunted by a hooded figure that used to be seen, on certain nights in the year, gliding about and kneeling, with one ear to the ground, in the attitude of listening. No serious sequence to its visitations was apprehended, unless it reached out one of its long arms and touched anyone, when it was a sure sign that that person would shortly die. [HAUNTED CHURCHES by ELLIOTT O’DONNELL (1939)]