Chester: England's Most Haunted City

Ghost on the Stairs

In the years following World War Two, a well-known Chester medium uncovered the sad secret of her ‘ghostly tenant'.

Mrs Dudley lived in an old house down a narrow alleyway just off Bridge Street Row in the heart of Chester. She was often woken in the early hours by a disembodied wailing and the sound of feet hurrying up and down the stairs.

When the medium finally made contact with the woman's distressed spirit at a séance, she learned the ghostly woman had apparently died as a result of a fall on the steep stairs. However, the ghost claimed that she had actually been murdered by her husband who had pushed her violently from behind. As a result, she had fallen down two flights of stairs and died. Her anguished spirit could not rest until the truth of her husband's guilt was widely known.

Now that it was too late for earthly justice, the medium said, it seemed her ghost was doomed to haunt the house forever.