The Ghosts of Cold Christmas

Legends

The church in Cold Christmas, Hertfordshire, seems to have been doomed from the start. When it was first built, in 1086, it was said to have had the wrong alignment. In Medieval times, it was a sign of the devil for a church to align North to South, as this church did. After centuries of ghost sightings and other paranormal activity, the church was demolished in 1853. Today, only a slightly more modern 15th-century tower and a graveyard stand where the church once did. Cold Christmas is allegedly named for a great tragedy: one particularly harsh winter, nearly all the children in the hamlet died. Legend has it they’re all buried in the graveyard, and their ghosts haunt the townspeople to this day. Many people have heard this long-abandoned tower growling or breathing heavily, and it also has a reputation as a place of occult rituals.