Case file · Haunting
The haunted house at 50 Berkeley Square
By the late 1870s 50 Berkeley Square in Mayfair was called the most haunted house in London, with tales of a room where people died of fright.
1879 CE · 51.51, -0.15 · status: legend
The account
From 1859 to 1874 the house was lived in by Thomas Myers, a recluse said to have been jilted. Stories in the magazine Mayfair (1879) and Notes and Queries spread the legend, which later added a sailor who fell to his death from the window.
The sceptical view
The legend probably grew from the strange, neglected house of an eccentric tenant.