The Stockwell Ghost

On 6 and 7 January 1772 the house of Mrs Golding, an elderly lady at Stockwell, was thrown into uproar as crockery, a clock, a lantern and jars of pickles fell and broke with no one near them, and the disturbances followed her to the neighbours’ houses. A narrative signed by the witnesses was printed, all London talked of the Stockwell Ghost, and most people put it down to witchcraft. Hone noted that the movements only happened when the maid, Ann Robinson, was present, and a man who later knew her told him she had admitted working them with horsehairs and wires.