Haunted house used for doomed 'witches' back on market 4 years after it was finally sold

The proprietor of Britain’s astir haunted location has enactment it back connected the market conscionable 4 years aft it was yet sold.

The property, dubbed “The Cage”, took 12 years to merchantability due to the fact that it was plagued by terrifying accounts of paranormal activity. It was yet snapped up successful 2020, contempt its morbid past arsenic a erstwhile colony lock-up utilized to imprison "witches" who sat waiting to beryllium burnt oregon hanged.

It’s present backmost connected the marketplace for £250,000 aft different erstwhile proprietor said she was shoved to the level by an chartless unit portion heavy pregnant. The caller property agents person admitted that alternatively than a location the tract "presents an enticing accidental for a cosy and eccentric holiday let."

Vanessa Mitchell purchased the location successful St Osyth, Essex, successful 2005 for £144,000, but her enactment determination was a abbreviated one. She claims to person witnessed the shade of a antheral vanish into an eerie mist, recovered humor connected the floor, and says she was adjacent shoved to the crushed portion heavy pregnant. But the last straw was spotting a satanic goat wandering astir connected CCTV.

The mum-of-two attempted to rent it out, but no-one would enactment determination for much than a fewer months, meaning the location laic bare since 2008. The roadside property, adjacent Clacton-on-Sea, was the erstwhile tract of a medieval prison, and is 1 of conscionable 7 near successful Britain.

Thirteen witches were locked successful the gathering earlier going connected trial, wherever 3 of them were hanged, including Ursula Kemp, who was executed successful 1582. The location appeared connected Channel 4's docudrama True Horror: The Witches Prison, portion paranormal experts astir the world person visited the premesis.

Vanessa says a young antheral had committed termination astatine the location not agelong earlier she purchased it, adding to the cottage's grim history. But the 46-year-old lived successful the roadworthy arsenic a kid and wanted to marque the determination backmost from Newcastle, wherever she was moving successful caravan sales.

Vanessa, 46, archetypal moved successful with puerility pal Nicole Kirtley, 42, but the hauntings started arsenic soon arsenic they began unpacking their boxes. She said she heard Nicole travel successful and went to marque her a cupful of tea, lone to find retired she was inactive outside. The lights past started turning themselves on, taps began running, and the brace started seeing flashing lights and feeling "heavy" presences.

The mum besides also saw a big, foreboding fig successful her hallway, which vanished and turned into a mist. She said: "The enactment started consecutive away. There were so, truthful galore things, from the archetypal day. Nicole was bringing our boxes successful and I stopped to marque a cupful of tea. I heard a sound down maine and thought it was her down me. I turned astir and she wasn't determination but determination was this tall, achromatic figure. I froze to the spot. It was similar a thick, achromatic fog, but it was wide daylight."

Things lone got worse, and earlier long, Nicole felt similar a captive successful her ain home. "The enactment was getting stronger and stronger," Vanessa said. "I saw a woman locomotion done what would beryllium the situation country into my beforehand room. She walked consecutive up to me. She had this bowl, she enactment her manus successful the vessel - I don't cognize what was successful it - and she sprinkled it implicit my head. Then she was gone.

"I could spot her similar I would spot a person, again it was wide daylight. Her vigor felt beauteous though, truly nice. If they're bad, you tin consciousness it, and she wasn't. I instinctively felt she was giving maine immoderate benignant of protection."

Vanessa's oldest lad Jesse, present 15, was calved astatine the Cage aft which things took a much sinister turn. Vanessa, who is besides mum to different boy, Jude, six, saw a legless man, and was 1 time looking successful the mirror, lone to beryllium pushed to the crushed from behind. At 1 point, her plumber refused to instrumentality due to the fact that helium was near terrified by the paranormal activity.

In Vanessa's last weeks, she adjacent resorted to eating packed lunches successful furniture and kept a potty adjacent truthful that she didn't person to permission the country successful the dark.

She says she vividly remembers the infinitesimal she knew she had to move. She said: "It was freezing acold and I retrieve getting retired of the car. It was truthful acold but I couldn't spell in. My caput was saying 'Vanessa you've got to, you've got the baby, you request to spell in.'

"The snowfall started coming down and I retrieve reasoning it conscionable wasn't safe. It was conscionable horrible, conscionable excessively much. There were truthful galore layers of past successful that house. The spirits were conscionable reliving and reliving it implicit and implicit again. I ne'er successful the satellite thought determination could beryllium specified an active, hostile, persistent haunting similar a movie."

After years connected the market, the merchantability yet went done successful 2020 for £220,000 - aft Vanessa had paid a owe connected the bare location for 11 years. During that time, the mum made ends conscionable by hosting shade trips and paranormal radical visits.

Spiritual healer and psychic, Rev Ted Woodroffe, visited the location successful November 2018 and "cleaned the spot up" earlier it was enactment backmost connected the market. He said: "The occupation is with almighty entities, which intelligibly determination were wrong the Cage, is that you person to beryllium protected if you are going successful to wide them.

"There were immoderate nasty, almighty presences successful that property. A young antheral who had taken his beingness was besides an issue. The witches suffered tremendous maltreatment anterior to being hanged, not helped by the paranormal groups who had been visiting. But each should beryllium good present arsenic I sent them to the light."

The Cage is present connected merchantability for £250,000, lone 4 years aft its past sale. It comes with 2 bedrooms, a kitchen, eating room, reception country and downstairs loo, arsenic good arsenic an upstairs bath and ample parking area.

New agents Lamb & Co accidental connected Rightmove: "Steeped successful medieval history, this erstwhile situation for witches dates backmost to the 16th period and boasts quality features. With its quaint charm, the spot presents an enticing accidental for a cosy and eccentric vacation let, offering promising returns connected investment."