THE TRUTH BEHIND KNOWLTON CHURCH ONE OF THE MOST HISTORIC HAUNTED PLACES IN DORSET!!!

Hi welcome to our website we are a team of 6 people who go around dorset and hampshire investigating the paranormal,we use equipment to aid us in detecting the unknown spirit world,we take pictures and footage to try and gain visual proof of the unknown.

knowlton church is one of the places we have investigated more than once and come across alot of interesting facts.

The Truth of Knowlton Church

The church was built sometime in the twelfth century and underwent several modifications through to the fourteenth century. It is widely believed that if megaliths (standing stones) were ever a feature of the surrounding henge they were broken up and used in the construction of the church.

Although the area around the site is now somewhat desolate, the village of Knowlton was once a thriving community, even to the extent that it held its own annual fair. In 1485 the village suffered the fate of so many other settlements and was virtually wiped out by the spread of the Black Death (bubonic plague). All that remains of the village today are the vague traces of foundations in a field located a few hundred yards to the west of the church. Despite this dreadful epidemic the church itself continued in use until the early part of the eighteenth century. In or around 1747 the church was given a new roof which promptly fell in! The church was abandoned and left to fall into ruin. Mystery always surrounded the fate of the bell from the church tower and gave rise to one or two local legends.

On our investigations we have come across what we believe to be a monk we have taken pictures with a shadow of a monk appearing we also have a white figure of a lady, these were both random pictures taken of the church ruins and its surroundings. it is also listed as one of the most haunted places found in dorset.we have also used emf meters and spirit boxes whilst investigating up there and picked up and communicated what we believe to be a male who was a monk and various other spirits some of which are angry and of nasty nature, it is rumoured that a monk haunts the ruins this infact could be true.

There is a yew tree a distance away from the church in which is used as a wishing tree where ribbons are hanging in remembrance of lost love ones, yew trees are infact hollow and it is believed that spirits are free to travel through the hollow trunk upwards and out.there are pagan rituals that have gone on which i might add we are not part of and do not wish to be part of. the church grounds are used by many people.

There are many stories about the hauntings found in the knowlton site many rumours and hope soon in the near future to investigate this further to what we have already found,