Chester:
England's Most Haunted City
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Spectral Monk
 The
half ruined arches of Chester's St John's
Priory and Church , close beside the Legionary
Fortress's Roman Amphitheatre, are the atmospheric
scene for one of the city's best known hauntings.
Over the years, all sorts of people have witnessed
a strange cowled figure in the vicinity. The mother
of a barmaid due to be married at St John's was
amazed to see a ghostly monk standing on the steps
of the so-called ‘haunted alleyway' that leads down
to the river beside the church on her daughter's
wedding day.
A schoolboy returning home one evening by another narrow path
to the river on the far side of the church, was also
surprised by a strange apparition. Looking up across
the nearby bowling green, the ordinarily sceptical
12-year-old saw the misty outline of a monk looking
at him from the edge of the churchyard above. It was
there for a moment or two, he said, before it vanished.
After that, his mother said, her son seemed to have
changed.
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