England has a long history of ghosts and hauntings.

Now page says there is almost 50 years old of forever.

Lancashire England has their fair share of monk apparitions.

Today we will focus on two of them, the monks at Jingle Hall.

A great many of the old houses and halls in Lancashire are haunted by a ghost of monks and priests.

This is a small wonder when you consider that the county was one of the last strongholds of the Catholic faith during the period of the Reformation.

Many of priests lost his life after being betrayed for celebrating secret masses.

Perhaps one of the best known of these ghostly clerics is to be found a few miles north of Preston and what is considered one of the top 10 haunted houses in all of England, Jingle Hall at Guznar.

Jingle Hall was built by Adam Desingleton in about 1258 as a small manor house of the crucifold type surrounded by a moat and complete with a drawbridge.

It is thought that the timbers used in the building of the house are Norwegian oak cut from trees which were then over a thousand years old and were retrieved from vessels which had sunk in the nearby river ribble.

Since Adam Desingleton had built it, the house has seen many alterations.

The sellers recorded on the original plans have disappeared and the drawbridge has been replaced by a little stone bridge.

There is now little trace of the moat except for a small lily pond to the left of the main entrance.

The houses riddled with hides and escape routes.

The tutorsingletons being ardent Catholics who during the Reformation harbored many priests.

Jingle was inherited by the wall family, relatives of the singletons and in about 1585 despite the persecutions it became an active mass center.

In a tiny single window which you can still see in the entrance porch, a lighted candle would indicate when a mass was about to be celebrated and the faithful would make their way quietly over the fields and slip into the house undetected.

In 1620 St. John Wall was born here. He was hanged for his faith at Worcester in 1679 and it's believed that his head was brought back to Jingle and buried in the sellers.

There are possibly two specters at the hall, both monks, one believed to be Franciscan, the other dressed in a black cape and cow.

A few years ago it wouldn't cross, hidden under several layers of plaster was discovered in a small domestic chapel.

And in January 1977 two cloaked and hooded figures were seen facing the cross as if in prayer.

In 1980 Terrence Whitaker was asked to investigate the Jingle goes for a BBC radio series.

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