The second ever History Hit live show saw Dan talking about ghosts with Martha McGill, the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. One married couple was coming home in the snow on Christmas Day in the 1880s and decided to take shelter in the porch. The spectral vicar then appears and drifts across the chapel, sadly and tunelessly whistling to himself all the time until he disappears into a wall to the right of the chapel gates. The ancient city is said to be haunted by one female ghost: a black-haired lady with red, glowing eyes.

In 1900 he kept a group of visitors entertained for a good twenty-five minutes as he drifted around the cloisters and then backed slowly towards a wall where he melted into the fabric. She was “quite gone” on carols, and used to take us boys through the City lanes…singing them as well as in church. He is known as “Father Benedictus,” and is most often seen bobbing around the cloisters at around five or six in the evening.Enshrouded in thick vegetation, the All Saints Church has been an abode of mystery since the 20th century. Fearing that, if it were Cromwell's coffin, sightseers would disturb the quiet of the place, the vicar bricked up the vault and now there is no record of where it is.

But St Mary’s is home to something much more disturbing than its lion-head gargoyles and grotesque corbels.Ahead, you will find a list of the most haunted churches around the world and details about each location's awry past and scary present. According to Savannah Magazine, doctors at the adjacent Candler Hospital (now the Savannah Law School) performed autopsies in the tunnels below.