The Terror Cellar - Real Paranormal Stories
Oct 7, 2026 · 34 min · 9 segments
For Day 7 of **31 Nights of Fright,** The Terror Cellar enters the haunted world of **Northamptonshire**, from the phantom armies of the Battle of Naseby and the ghostly figures of Delapré Abbey, to…
Andy CroftsHost
And then there are the battlefields because Northamptonshire has seen an extraordinary amount of bloodshed and perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than Naseby.
On a summer's day, you can stand there now and look across what appears to be a perfectly ordinary countryside.
It's difficult to imagine that in June 1645, thousands of men came together here for one of the decisive battles of the English Civil War.
Men fought, men screamed, men died, and according to generations of local stories, sometimes, when the conditions are right, the battles start again.
There are traditions that for years after the Battle of Naseby, people claimed they could hear or even see a supernatural replay of the fighting around the anniversary.
Cavalry, gunfire, soldiers, the noise of battle carried across fields that, in the physical world, were completely silent.
Imagine standing there after sunset, nothing around you, and then, somewhere beyond the darkness, a cannon, a horse, the distant movement of hundreds of men, except there aren't hundreds of men.
And perhaps the most unsettling part of the Naseby stories is that people didn't always describe it as a single ghost.
It was more like the battlefield itself had somehow remembered, as though the ground had retained an impression of what happened there, and occasionally it played back.
One account from the 19th century describes a spectral horseman appearing across the battlefield, A letter published in the Northampton Chronicle in 1898 told of a mysterious rider apparently seen on the battlefield and the figure was interpreted by some as Oliver Cromwell.
Cromwell had commanded the parliamentary forces at Naseby and that means you have a strange image to begin with.
A man riding across a field where more than 200 years earlier he had commanded an army.
But Naseby isn't the only battlefield in Northamptonshire with a reputation for strange things.
It was founded in 1145 as a cluniac nunnery and for hundreds of years women lived and died within those walls.
The grounds around Delaprie became part of another bloody chapter in English history.
And then there are the battlefields because Northamptonshire has seen an extraordinary amount of bloodshed and perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than Naseby.
On a summer's day, you can stand there now and look across what appears to be a perfectly ordinary countryside.
It's difficult to imagine that in June 1645, thousands of men came together here for one of the decisive battles of the English Civil War.
Men fought, men screamed, men died, and according to generations of local stories, sometimes, when the conditions are right, the battles start again.
There are traditions that for years after the Battle of Naseby, people claimed they could hear or even see a supernatural replay of the fighting around the anniversary.
Cavalry, gunfire, soldiers, the noise of battle carried across fields that, in the physical world, were completely silent.
Imagine standing there after sunset, nothing around you, and then, somewhere beyond the darkness, a cannon, a horse, the distant movement of hundreds of men, except there aren't hundreds of men.
And perhaps the most unsettling part of the Naseby stories is that people didn't always describe it as a single ghost.
It was more like the battlefield itself had somehow remembered, as though the ground had retained an impression of what happened there, and occasionally it played back.
One account from the 19th century describes a spectral horseman appearing across the battlefield, A letter published in the Northampton Chronicle in 1898 told of a mysterious rider apparently seen on the battlefield and the figure was interpreted by some as Oliver Cromwell.
Cromwell had commanded the parliamentary forces at Naseby and that means you have a strange image to begin with.
A man riding across a field where more than 200 years earlier he had commanded an army.
But Naseby isn't the only battlefield in Northamptonshire with a reputation for strange things.
It was founded in 1145 as a cluniac nunnery and for hundreds of years women lived and died within those walls.
The grounds around Delaprie became part of another bloody chapter in English history.
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