Britain's First Ghost Hunt

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

History Hit

Serial Killers, Mystery, True Crime, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Supernatural, Folklore, Ufos, Myths, History, Murder, Paranormal

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It was the original modern ghost hunt, the one that set the template for all the haunted houses to come. When a wealthy plantation family moves into a crumbling Georgian mansion in the 1760's the haunting begins. By the end even royalty were on tenterhooks. Eleanor Janega joins Anthony Delaney for this episode.

Edited by Tim Arstall. Produced by Stuart Beckwith.

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0:32.7	Deep in the English countryside stands the Grand Hympton Manor,
0:40.2	centuries old and whispered to be haunted. Strange lights flicker in empty halls, doors slam on their own, and those who stay too
0:47.5	long tell stories of footsteps, whispers and shadows that should not exist. In this episode, we enter Hinton Amner,
0:57.7	long spoken of as one of the great haunted houses of Georgian England. We'll follow the
1:03.9	reports of midnight disturbances, investigations in the Age of Enlightenment, and a spirit said
1:09.9	to stalk the rooms long after death.
1:13.4	Join us as we step beyond the candlelight and into the shadows of Hempton-Ampner,
1:18.2	to witness one of England's earliest ghost hunts,
1:21.2	and to confront the darkness that stirred within its walls.
1:52.0	Music stirred within its walls. Hello, I'm Hello and welcome to a spooky edition of After Dark.
1:52.7	My name's Anthony.
1:53.9	My name is Eleanor.
1:56.4	And today we are... Well, before we get into that, I should acknowledge that, of course, Eleanor is not Maddie.
2:00.1	You may have seen this and noticed this before.
2:03.3	Maddie, of course, these two women are different people.
2:06.6	That's crazy, I know. It's crazy the way women can have individual lives.
2:10.9	This is because Maddie has been in the Andes discovering a new civilization of people that has hitherto for being
2:20.4	unknown to us. It's just that's Maddie all over. That's right. That's right. Plus she's had a
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