Haunt Field is a theory I have been developing about why some places become haunted and stay that way. The short version is that a place is strange first and haunted second: somewhere lonely, old or oddly placed gets a reputation, the reputation shapes what people expect to see there, and each new report feeds the next, until the spot appears to grow ghosts of its own. The articles below are where I put that idea to work on real cases, from a Northumbrian castle to Whitechapel and Loch Ness. Whether the theory holds, I leave to you.
Nestling in the shelter of the South Downs in West Sussex is a small village surrounded by dense woodlands that harbour …