If you love visiting spooky places, these haunted woods in Essex might just be the next spot for you to tour.
Cash’s Well, located in Langdon Hills Country Park near Basildon, is popular with paranormal investigators and ghost hunters for its ghost sightings since the 1920’s.
It’s claimed that the area is home to ghost spirits, and they leave people crying and ‘wanting to kill.’ The area was recently visited by a reporter from Essex Live along with a group of ghost hunters.
According to the ghost hunters, the well is frequently visited by spirits – including a woman with 20 children and a man in uniform.
Speaking to Essex Live, ghost hunter Russell Old said he would invite ghosts to interact with tourists whenever he takes people to the spooky area.
“We get our guests to stand there and the children will come and hold their hands,” Russell said.
“We’ll get them to pull on the guests’ fingers, two for a boy or one for a girl, and they’ll get that physical sensation.”
The well was constructed by Edwin Cash in the 1900’s. He wanted to sell the mineral-rich water of the well but his business crashed.
Edwin passed away in 1931, but rumors have it that his spirit still resides in the well.
Russell added: “We all stand up, hold hands and draw the energy in. We’ve had people’s noses going down that well after being pushed over, and we’ve had the whole group pushed out the door.
“We’ve had people who come here, do not believe us, and they’ve got their noses touching the floor. People stand there saying ‘why are my hands moving?’
“They’re trying to push it down but they can’t, then all the hands are in the air.
“On the other side through the bushes, it’s a bit sinister, you see a lot of light anomalies. A lot of it is psychological but you’ll get a lot of people who don’t want to stand with their backs to the window or by the door.”
Russell said things are even worse near a bridge, and even he would never go near it.
He said: “There’s a bridge that we very rarely go to because it’s dark and sinister.”
“We also had a guy who was seven feet tall, stocky, broad, and he was the nicest guy you’d ever spoken to, but we took him up to the top of the hill and he got so aggressive.
“The others were telling me that he wasn’t right and he’d never spoken to anyone like that. He was cursing and throwing his arms around, so we had to turn him around. He wasn’t under attack, he was just feeling the energy.
“We had to talk to him to get him out and all of a sudden he came back to us. He said ‘I just wanted to kill everybody’. You do worry, you could see his hands and he was really containing something.”
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