Where the Ravens Still Watch

In 1816, a sentry at the Jewel House reportedly bayoneted a bear-shaped apparition and died of shock days later. In October 1817, Edmund Swifte, Keeper of the Crown Jewels, said he threw a chair through a glowing, cylinder-shaped apparition in the same building.

Begin inside the Tower's walls, where centuries of executions and imprisonments have made it one of England's most reported hauntings, and where the resident ravens are said to protect the Crown itself.

Two nights of lights in a Suffolk pine forest between two American air bases in December 1980, and a one-page memo the deputy base commander sent to the Ministry of Defence three weeks later. The lighthouse at the center of the standard explanation was demolished in 2020.

Drive northeast into Suffolk to the former RAF Woodbridge perimeter, where USAF personnel reported strange lights and a landed craft over several nights in December 1980, still Britain's most thoroughly documented UFO case.

A black dog reported across East Anglia, and one Sunday morning in 1577 when a storm killed worshippers in two Suffolk churches. A London pamphleteer wrote it up as the devil, and Blythburgh still shows the scorch marks on its door.

Continue north along the coast, where sightings of a huge, spectral black dog with burning eyes have been reported since at least 1577. The stop is Holy Trinity at Blythburgh, where the north door still carries the scorch marks. St Mary's at Bungay, the other church in the 1577 story, is about 30 minutes inland.