This unfinished Gothic Revival pile, abandoned in the 1870s, its incomplete corridors and bare stone interiors offering a haunting time capsule of Victorian ambition gone cold. Visitors and mediums report a wide range of inexplicable phenomena: the sound of a young girl singing an Irish lament in the kitchen, 1940s music floating through empty hallways, floating heads and orbs drifting through corridors, phantom soldiers in military uniform, a chapel haunted by a short stonemason tossing stones, a playful girl skipping on the grand staircase, and a horseman riding the drive. Woodchester Mansion regularly features on paranormal TV and ghost-hunting tours—it’s been explored on Most Haunted Live, Ghost Hunters International, and through numerous public ghost-hunt events, where visitors often experience strange cold spots, disembodied noises and objects moving of their own accord