HAUNTED HOUGHTON HOUSE

Following our same day visit to the De Grey Mausoleum, we travelled a further few more miles to visit and investigate briefly the ruins of Houghton Hall.

For although we were only onsite a short period as the site shuts at dusk, we managed to capture some interesting EVP`s.

The house was built in approximately 1615 for the writer, translator, and literary patron Mary Sidney Herbert, Dowager Countess of Pembroke (born 27 October 1561) but she died of smallpox on 25 September 1621, not long after its completion. A Jacobean style frieze on the western side of the house incorporated devices from Mary's ancestral Sidney and Dudley families.

After the Countess' death, the house passed to Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin in 1624. The Bruce family owned the house until the 2nd Earl of Ailesbury, a strong supporter of the Stuarts, retired to exile overseas in 1696 on account of his loyalty to King James II of England.

Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury never returned to Houghton and so sold the house to John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford in 1738. The 4th Duke was predeceased by his sons (the 4th Duke's son and heir, Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock died when he fell from a horse whilst hunting) and therefore the house and the dukedom passed to his grandson, Francis Russell.

In 1794, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford stripped Houghton House of its furnishings and removed the roof. This may have been due, in part, to his father's horseriding tragedy. The Duke never married nor had he produced a legitimate heir. He died in 1802 by which time the house, now open to the elements, was already in decay.

It is said that the house was the model for House Beautiful in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. Its staircase survives in The Swan Hotel in Bedford.

MUSIC: Kevin Macleod @ http://www.incompetech.com.

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[WeeeWriter]

I was just curious. When was this home built? What family owned this place and what happened to this obviously once-beautiful place?

[Constantine99999]

Yes, read the info panel to the right and remember to click `more info`.

[prisoner12a]

omg chris!! your friend rudy! hes my cousin! how do u know him?! haha this is so weird seeing him!

[Constantine99999]

Rudy says hi, but he would like to know which of his cousin`s are you?

[Kavanaghness]

Another excellent video!

[Constantine99999]

Thankyou! :)

[666karon]

@666karon he went with his girlfriend to find him and he was layed out cold on the floor in the builkding right were u said u sore someone. he had tears in his eyes telling me coz he was so scared. he had to carry his friend back because his cheek hurt and was dazed as if someone had hit him and knocked him out. my son thinks it was a ghost. he really does his mate doesnt know wot the hell happened to him. but im shook up listening to him tell me about it. scarey stuff. kids lesson learned !

[666karon]

my son just told me this really creepy story and no this is really not a joke last night at approx 8.30 to 9.30. him and his friends decided to be stupid and go up there. well it started getting dark so they all walked back up the lane with the trees and his friend randomly ran back into the house. they phoned him and waited for him to come back and he didnt. he answered the phone in the end and whilst on the line heard a voice say c**t and they a loud thud on the end of the phone.

[shaydeelady]

How do you record the EVP's? I sometimes hear things. would love to record them.

In another video of yours i watched you mentioned a smell of strong perfume. We use to get this all the time in our old home. a medium told me it was related to funerals and flowers.

[Femalecommaman]

I THOUGHT this looked like the place in the video you released today (Sept. 2, 2010) Interesting to read more about it and to see it in daylight. Too bad they took the house apart piecemeal. As for the columns they ARE quite lovely but "fool's names and fool's faces always appear in unwanted places"

[mands66]

me and my friends went to houghton house when it was dark, trust me we all see things and heard things that made us unsettled

[sezums]

Brill, I was going to visit this today but it seems such a long walk up to it. I'll visit now! You guys are brave!!

[creeman1968]

It's always nice to see the paranormal from a different and positive view for a change :) Great work!!!

[MissCherieParfait]

You should have gone to Clophill -dead mans here - right next to Houghton House! So scary!

[SCORteam]

Good job!