This
twelfth century cathedral in Kent, England, is a famous pilgrimage site
where Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1161 to 1170, was
murdered on King Henry II's orders. However, it is the ghost of another
Archbishop called Simon Sudbury that walks the
cathedral
to this day. Sudbury was also a murder victim, killed by Wat Tyler, the head
of the Peasant's revolt, in 1381. Sudbury, a pale man with a long, gray
beard, haunts the tower that bears his name.
Despite
the fact that Sudbury was beheaded and his body is buried in a different
place from his head, he does not appear as a headless ghost.
The
cathedral is also said to be haunted by a monk who can be seen walking in
the cloisters with a distant , thoughtful expression on his face.
There
is a passage in the cathedral known as the Dark Entry which is haunted by
Nell Cook, who was a servant of a canon of the cathedral. Nell was so angry
with her employer after discovering that he was having an affair, she
poisoned some food and killed the canon and his lover with it. As punishment
for her crime, Nell was buried alive beneath the Dark Entry. Her spirit
haunts the passageway to this day on dark Friday evenings. According to
legend, anyone who is unfortunate enough to see the ghost of Nell Cook will
die soon after.
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