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The Swearing Spirit at Dead Woman's Ditch

This location and story seems to be doing the rounds on the paranormal social media pages and news outlets at the moment, this is the less dramatized version.. The Swearing Spirit at Dead Woman's Ditch Dead Woman's Ditch is an earthwork which has been scheduled as an ancient monument in Over Stowey, Somerset, situated on the Quantock Hills and it the reputed site where one Jane Walford was murdered in July 1789. It was named this before the murder, so who knows what may have happened here before.. She had been married to John Walford for only a month when he slit her throat following a drunken domestic argument. Her ghost has been reportedly sighted here. There are also reports of a woman in white, who is said to swear at people and tell them to f*** off, not sure whether this is the same person or another unrelated apparition.. In 1988 the body of Shirley Banks was found at the site. John Cannan was found guilty of her murder. Following the discovery of Jane Walford's body, her husband John was swiftly arrested. At his trial he was found guilty and sentenced to hang. The site of his execution and the spot where he hung for a year and a day, has since been known as Walford's Gibbet. Visitors to the spot have reported hearing the clanking of chains and the "repulsive" odour of death. His ghost has also been reported there as well as on nearby roads and pathways. Source- Great British Ghost Tour & Wikipedia Read the full story of the murder on the link below

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/dark-somerset-doomed-marriage-jane-810710?fbclid=IwAR1Pxz8qdBUj-dyEPgPQgkddfRwc7VWvD5HSF9NCCEOU-CJnUAr7sqwlnjk

Check out SOS Paranormal, who did a joint investigation here last Autumn with West Mendip Paranormal..