Haunted Places

On the outskirts of the town of Congleton along the A34 can be found a small road which is known as Watery lane. The origin of the name is unknown at this time but may have something to do with the eerie dripping of water from the underside of the foreboding looking tunnel in the photograph which carries the Macclesfield canal above it.

Haunted Watery Lane. Photo by Gary Tacagni.

About 100 yards before the tunnel on the right hand side of the road there is a small lay by, it is more of a passing place as the tunnel is to narrow to allow more than one vehicle through at a time. It was at this lay by when a person had pulled in with their vehicle one night, it is not known how long they had stopped here but I believe it was longer than just allowing another person to pass this spot. While they were stationary they experienced what can only be described as Poltergeist activity. It started with their car being rocked from side to side with no one, and no thing close to the vehicle and it ended with something hammering on the roof of the car, again with nothing visible. Having visited the site and photographed it I can attest to the fact that there is a definite atmosphere at this place, whether some sort of accident or tragedy has occurred here is not known at the present moment.

Lay by at Morton Level. Photo by Gary Tacagni.

It was probably between 2000-2002 when a spate of near misses were reported to the police on the A34 between Congleton and Scholar Green in the county of Cheshire, U.K., the vehicle near misses happened close to Little Morton Hall on a stretch of road known as Morton Level.

The people involved claimed to have swerved to avoid figures that were in the road, the police decided to look into it before a fatality occurred. For many months a police car was parked on a regular basis on the Lay by at Morton Level with two officers keeping watch but reporting no activity. One night when they thought their vigil had been fruitless, and they were about to turn their patrol car around and head back to Congleton, when to their complete suprise a horse and carriage appeared on the main road and proceeded to travel about 100 yards towards Scholar Green whereupon it turned left into the entrance to the 14th century house known as Little Morton Hall and promptly disappeared. It is not known whether the two officers were breathalysed or not.