Portsmouth's spookiest sites

In 2003, a woman left a synthesiser keyboard at the store for sale, saying she had seen it moving of its own accord at home. Later two workers at the London Road store reported seeing the keyboard fly three metres across the shop floor, hitting a CD rack.

In the 1930s, a woman walking along the road said she had been passed by a detachment of soldiers who were wearing First World War uniforms. When she looked back she realised they had vanished.

The ghost of Buster Crabb, the diver who vanished while attempting to spy on a Soviet warship docked at Portsmouth during the Cold War, is said to haunt the hotel in which he spent his last night.

Legend says the ghostly form of an actor who cut his own throat at the theatre in the 1880 still treads the boards

Said to be haunted by several spirits, including the whistling ghost of a sergeant-major who has been heard in old sergeants' mess.

Said to be the most haunted building in Hampshire, spooks are said to include Reckless Roddy, aka Sir Roderick of Portchester who tried to take advantage of a young bride and was stabbed by her enraged husband, Francis Austen, brother of the novelist Jane Austen, former warden of the nearby St. Peter and St. Paul's church, and an apparition known as The
Bloody Nun.