No. 50, BERKLEY SQUARE
LONDON, ENGLAND
1830 - 1880
some ghosts shouldn't really be considered ghosts at all - some are so horrible and violent that they leave a bloody trail of murder and suicide in their wake. These ghosts do not always stay around - and that is definitely for the best. A good example of this is the so called "Mad Myers" of Berkley Square, in jolly old London, England.

The haunting really began in 1830, when a young woman hurled herself to her death from an upstairs window. it is unknown as to weather or not she is the ghost which plagued the house for 50 years, or if she was just the first in a long line of victims of the mysterious and horrible vision.

Then the house fell into the hands of a recluse known as Mr. Myers, who had gone insane after his fiancée eloped with another man. He has spent a small fortune refurbishing the house to his bride's liking, and he spent the rest of his life aimlessly wandering the rooms in mourning.

The house was vacant for 2 years until a family known as Bentley moved in. this was in 1880. The daughter was about to be married to an army officer, Kenfeild. The housemaid was preparing her chambers when suddenly terrified screams rang through the house. The family found the poor servant in a near catatonic state in the bedroom, where she was paralyzed with fear and unable to speak. She died in the hospital the next day after muttering that she had seen "something horrible" in the room that had put her in such a bad state.

Capt. Kenfeild insisted on staying in the room the night, despite his fiancée's pleas. He promised that he would ring a bell if he saw anything. Everything was silent until late into the night, when a frantic sound of a bell ringing filled the house, followed by a loud gunshot. Kenfeild was lying on the floor, convulsing in terror, his eyes fixed on a corner of the room, smoking pistol in hand. A bullet hole was in the corner he stared at, and he was unable to speak. Kenfeild recovered, but he was never his old self again - and was never able to speak of what he saw in that room.

It can be theorized that the ghost is really that or Mr. Myers himself, materializing in some horrible form, intent on destroying any marriage that takes place in "his" house like the one he was never to enjoy with his long-lost love. Or it could be some elemental force which resides in the house, which spurred the young woman to take her life and Myers to insanity.

Whatever the cause, the house was turned into a bookstore after World War II and no disturbances have plagued the owners.