John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, grew up in Epworth Rectory, which was built in 1697 and completely destroyed by fire in 1709. It was rebuilt within months, and despite many changes to its structure over the years, its 18th Century features have been very well preserved.

It was sold to the Methodist Church in 1954 and is now a museum, but it is during the early 1700s - the period when Samuel and Susanna, Wesley's parents, still lived there - that its famous history of hauntings began. The couple called their ghost 'Old Jeffrey', and he apparently treated the residents to screams, howls and groans, and would smash bottles in the attic.

John Wesley's sister Hetty once claimed to have seen him, manifested as a shadowy figure in a white robe, though his mother Susanna claimed a rather less conventional sighting of the spirit, manifested as a headless badger.

Written by  larapiegeler.

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