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The peg-legged prisoner

The oldest part of the Naval Barracks at Chatham is Cumberland Block. In room 34, a sailor with a peg-leg and crutch was twice glimpsed during the late 1940s. Dressed in the naval uniform of Nelsons time, he was limping to and fro and tapping his crutch. The ghost is probably the aftermath of a terrible crime perpetrated against this man in the early nineteenth century. He was an ordinary sentry, en route to room 34 where the next man on the roster for duty was still sleeping. The other man was late and the sentry desperately needed to get some sleep himself. Suddenly, he was accosted by a crowd of desperate prisoners about to escape and, without mercy, they bludgeoned him to death.

Since the first two reports in the 1940s, the peg-legged sailor has been seen and heard, limping and tapping, on numerous occasions.London | RAF |