UK’s most HAUNTED house has finally sold after 12 years on market – as previous owner ‘fled for their life in terror’

A SEMI dubbed Britain's astir haunted location has sold for £250,000 conscionable months aft a erstwhile proprietor fled successful terror.

The proprietor claims an chartless beingness threw her to the level erstwhile she was heavy large aft she bought the location successful 2020 from Vanessa Mitchell.

Previous owner, Vanessa, had spent 12 years trying to merchantability the 16th Century location - known arsenic The Cage - aft a paranormal barrage.

The location sold successful 2020 for £240,000 but it was enactment backmost connected merchantability for £250,000 successful October 2024.

During those 4 years, the owners utilized the spot arsenic a vacation let and described it arsenic a "cosy and eccentric vacation let, offering promising returns connected investment."

The 16th Century spot - and erstwhile medieval prison that erstwhile held witches, was primitively bought by Vanessa successful 2005.

But she fled successful 2008 with her babe lad aft she was terrorised by respective ghosts including a bottom-spanking ghoul.

Vanessa didn't realise the location successful St Osyth, Essex, was haunted but things soon went bump successful the night.

She was terrorised by a bottom-spanking ghoul and a acheronian apparition would springiness visitors a chill.

She besides witnessed ghostly figures, mysterious humor spatters and was pushed implicit portion pregnant.

The last straw came erstwhile her CCTV picked up an eerie representation of what she feared was the shade of a satanic goat.

Vanessa struggled to find a purchaser and advertised it for merchantability with Home Domus 360 for £240,000 - £92,000 much than she paid for it.

While filming a promo video, the unit picked up a unusual "symbol" connected a doorway during a agelong vulnerability representation of the landing.

Vanessa said: "The location is perfectly haunted. There is nary uncertainty successful the satellite that this location is simply a precise haunted house. It ever has been.

"It started disconnected with smaller things that cipher truly cared about.

"The doors would open, the kettle would crook itself on, the implements by the occurrence would plaything backmost and forward, the doors would unfastened and shut, the latches connected the doors would spell up, the taps would crook on. All that wide stuff.

"All of the abrupt the country would spell freezing acold and you could spot the achromatic happening there. That started disconnected rather soon, wrong days really. I knew the archetypal day.

"I've been the guardian of this peculiar location since 2004. It's present clip for maine to fto idiosyncratic other look aft it."

Thirteen witches were kept determination earlier they were enactment connected trial.

The astir celebrated was Ursula Kemp who was tried for witchcraft and hanged successful 1582 on with 2 others.

The Cage remained arsenic a situation for men, women and children up until 1908 earlier it became a backstage residence.

The location featured successful Channel 4 documentary True Horror 'The Witches Prison' which aired connected Halloween nighttime successful 2018.

Paranormal experts person visited from each implicit the world.

Vanessa has besides penned a publication ‘Spirits of the Cage’ astir the events.

She near the location with lad Jesse successful 2008 to determination into rented accommodation and has since desperately been trying to flog it.

The cottage itself comprises 3 reception rooms, a kitchen, a crushed level cloakroom, positive 2 bedrooms and a bath connected the divided level archetypal floor.

A plaque connected the gathering describes the plight of Ursula Kemp, who was imprisoned successful The Cage connected suspicion of witchcraft earlier being hanged successful Chelmsford successful 1582.

Estate cause Florent Lambert, manager of Home Domus, said: “Vanessa did effort to merchantability The Cage galore times since 2008 and with a fig of antithetic property agents.

“Most agents advised her to merchantability astatine auction astatine ridiculous prices oregon were not astatine each funny arsenic they predicted it could not beryllium sold.

“I took it arsenic a situation and a ngo to find the mode to champion merchantability it.”