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Knighton, Isle of Wight
Knighton, Isle of Wight is a location reputed to be haunted in Isle of Wight, England, GB. Its reputation comes from reported apparitions, unexplained phenomena and eyewitness accounts gathered over time.
Where is Knighton, Isle of Wight?
- Location
- Isle of Wight, England, GB
- Type
- Other
- Coordinates
- 50.678, -1.2
- Testimonies
- 0
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Why is Knighton, Isle of Wight said to be haunted?
Knighton itself is a quiet scatter of farmhouses on the Isle of Wight, but it sits beside the site of Knighton Gorges, a vanished manor burned down by its own owner in 1821 and remembered as the island's most cursed and haunted spot despite no longer existing. Locals still claim that on New Year's Eve the house reappears in full glory, its windows blazing with candlelight and its halls ringing with music and laughter, before vanishing again by morning. Another tale recalls Sir Tristram Dillington, an MP who is said to have taken his own life on 7 July 1721 after ruinous gambling losses; his valet allegedly hid the death by strapping the body to his horse, Thunderbolt, and driving it into a lake, and Dillington's ghost is said to ride the grounds each year on the anniversary. An earlier owner, Hugh de Morville -- one of the four knights who killed Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170 -- was reputedly convinced the estate was cursed from the start.
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