St Mary's, Harrow-on-the-Hill — the nun among the gravestones

London · United Kingdom · Kyrka · Scare 3/5

A nun in white drifts between the graves on the hill — and the rational explanation is nearly as unsettling as the ghost.

The church on Harrow hill was consecrated in 1094 and can be seen for miles across west London. Its graveyard is beautiful and almost unnaturally quiet, and for generations visitors have described a nun-like figure moving between the stones at dusk, vanishing when approached. Local history offers a chilly explanation: that during the Great War the verger would drape himself in a sheet each Halloween to frighten rowdy youths away from the graves. But the stories are older than that. The churchyard also holds the flat tomb slab of John Peachey, where the young Lord Byron would lie stretched out for hours staring at the sky — a detail that gives the place its particular melancholy. Byron's daughter Allegra was buried at the same church with no name on the stone.

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St Mary's, Harrow-on-the-Hill — the nun among the gravestones is in London, United Kingdom.