KENT'S CREEPIEST- GHOST STORIES

Here are 10 tales to make you shiver as we celebrate All Hallows’ Eve

- Stephen Roberts

The motorist, indicating that he was pulling in, slowed and stopped just a few paces beyond the girl he’d seen some distance away making the trademark hitchhiker’s gesture.

Without saying a word, she slipped into the back seat and settled herself. Setting off again, the driver glanced into his rearview mirror to see if he could establish eye contact with his new passenger; there was no sign of her at all.

I wrote about Kent’s Most Haunted in November 2018. Two years on it’s time to look at some more of the county’s creepiest ghost stories. Make sure you’re reading this on a suitably dark night, but please ensure all your doors and windows are securely locked (although that might not deter an apparition).

10 Allhallows-on-Sea: A Stable Fable

A modest, D-shaped artillery fort built at Allhallowson-Sea on the Isle of Grain in 1867, Slough Fort was intended to guard the Thames at the time of a French invasion scare.

The fort was used as a command post during the First World War but had been sold off by the end of the 1920s. Since the 1960s it’s been used as stables adjacent to a holiday camp.

An investigation was mounted in 2013 after bright glowing lights were captured on CCTV.

Unusual white objects are reported to have ‘popped up, floated around and darted across the sky.’

Was it a coincidence that the 19th-century tunnels at the fort had been cleared the year before having lain filled up for more than 50 years?

It has been claimed the lights may be nothing more sinister than late-season bugs flying close to the camera lens. Or is the reason actually far more other-worldly?