East Riddlesden Hall
KEIGHLEY, WEST YORKSHIRE



East Riddlesden Hall has been standing since the 1640's. A small part of the main house was declared unsafe and it was demolished about a century ago before the building ended up in National Trust hands in 1934. The big lake outside has seen 3 drownings, one of a victorian boy who's ghost has been seen looking sorrowful in the hall. During the 14th century the master returned to the house unexpectantly to find his lover in bed with another man, and was so enraged that he locked his lover in her bedroom until she starved to death. The man she was with did not escape and was walled up behind a wall, while the ghost of the woman has been seen and her groans and footsteps have also been heard. Footsteps are heard, bedroom covers are messed with, and a cradle is rocked by unseen hands in the chamber. Children are heard and seen playing in the barn, and a dark figure is known to grab people there. The gray lady is seen outside where she tragically lost her life in a horse riding accident, while the little boy named Edward Johnson Horner who tragically drowned there has been seen near the lake playing.