Case file · Haunting
The Willington Mill haunting
From the 1830s the house of Quaker mill-owner Joseph Procter at Willington, Tyneside, was troubled by footsteps, voices and a glowing figure of a woman, which he recorded in a diary.
1835 CE · 54.99, -1.49 · status: account
The account
Procter's son published the diary in 1892. The house became one of the best-known Victorian hauntings, investigated by a doctor who claimed to see the figure.
The sceptical view
The evidence is a sincere diary and visitors' stories; no independent test was made.