Scary stories about the house №50 in Berkeley square in London

Area Berkeley located in the heart of London for two centuries it was one of the most prestigious areas to live in.

Along with the areas of Park lane, Chelsea and Mayfair she is the epitome of wealth and success of all that can give London. Here walked and talked in his circle of noble lords, noble ladies, counts and Duchess, and according to the old song, there was always singing nightingales.

House No. 50 was built in 1740, and for several decades he was a very ordinary house, does not stand out from other houses on the same square. But then the apartment in the attic room of a young girl committed suicide by throwing himself down from the window. According to legend, a girl was raped by her uncle and she could not tolerate such a shame.

Other versions tell of a young boy who was locked in a punishment for something in the attic and only gave him food through a small hole in the door. The guy soon went mad and died, and after death became a Ghost.

The third story is about a little girl who previously lived in the same apartment under the roof and at once attacked the servant of a sadistic and beat her to death. Anyway, the apartment is under the roof of the house number 50 settled something supernatural, creepy and very evil. Sometimes it was in the form of a reddish-brown clot of fog, sometimes in the form of whitish "classic" Ghost. In this apartment, no one could live there and at night heard the frightening knocks, squeaks and groans.

From 1859 to 1874 years at number 50 lived a certain Thomas Myers and once the bride had rejected his proposal that were hurt are already older man. He became a recluse and almost never went out of my room.

Saying that it is in this state is so strongly influenced by the frightening sound of night, he slowly began to go crazy. After his death, the reputation of this house as spooky places to stay is even stronger.

In 1872 the famous Lord Littleton made a bet that I will spend the night in the attic room of the house. With him he took the shotgun and when the night appeared to him something terrible. he shot the creature with a shotgun. The next morning he found in the room, only his bullets on the floor, but nothing else there was not.

In 1887 magazine Mayfair Magazine published a note about that in the room under the roof of house No. 50 in the evening accidentally (or purposely) was locked the maid, and when she found out this morning, poor girl was absolutely insane. She was placed in the hospital, but the next day she died.

In the same article it was written that one gentleman decided to see personally what happened in that room and remained there for the night. And when morning found him, he was so paralyzed with fear that even he could not speak.

In the same 1887 it was reported that two sailors from the ship "Penelope" spent the night in one room of the house (even the attic) and in the morning one was found dead in the hallway. Poor man as if something broke off and smashed a head in the fall, although there were no thresholds, no nothing else on the floor.

Shortly after this incident, several tenants said that they had seen the Ghost of Thomas Myers, who was very aggressive. Different strange story went about the house number 50 to the 1930-ies, after which the house was purchased by the London company Maggs Bros. and it opened a large office on Antiques.

After that, no reports of unusual occurrences of this house have been reported, it is known that an attic room it is always closed and there are not allowed to be even the store employees.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»