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During the Protestant Reformation, tunnels were dug from this house to the nearby River Mersey, to allow priests to escape to Ireland via a boat if necessary. Even today, these holes are still visible. Allegedly, a woman, devastated by the actions of her philandering husband, killed herself and then her baby. Many people have reported feeling cold spots, while others have reportedly seen spirits of the agonized woman.

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Kylie says:

October 24, 2005, 10:59 pm

how could the woman kill herself and then her baby shouldn’t it be she killed her baby and then herself?

Dave says:

October 26, 2005, 4:22 pm

A friend of mine worked at Speke Hall at one time. She never told any story about the woman and baby but was convinced that the place was haunted.

philicia says:

November 22, 2005, 7:46 pm

it means they were both killed by the lady just in a wierd order *****

sarah says:

November 26, 2005, 1:03 pm

Spookie!

Julia says:

November 27, 2005, 1:30 pm

Well, here the story goes,,,,
Apparently there WAS a philanthrapist husband, but word goes that he set his sights on a maid. (Basically if the “men of the house” decide they want the maids then thats the way it goes and if the maid gets pregnant then thats her own fault & would be given leave without reference)
Anyway, the husband got the maid pregnant & through her own distress put the baby down the thunderbolt (the toilet, which is a straight drop down into the moat), where of course the baby died & the maid then commited suicide in the great hall. It is said that the spirit of the maid is often felt wandering around the house.

penny says:

January 17, 2006, 12:48 pm

What do the tunnels and the lady have in commen what is there comection

did she kill her self in the tunnels, out side the tunnels do the tunnels even have anything to do with the lady and her baby

janine says:

January 19, 2006, 5:08 pm

I live close to speke hall and have visited a few times. On my latest visit last summer i asked the staff which i could find whether they had ever saw anything within the house these tunnels or the surrounding grounds, some of these people had worked there for over 20 years. The reply to my question from all of the staff was NO, some further explained ‘nor have they ever felt uncomfortable within the house or heard strange noises. o yeah and the ladies name was Sarah!

zoe says:

April 8, 2006, 12:35 pm

how can the woman do that to the baby then herself it is horrible

when i went to speke hall we went in edwards room and my mate was the last one out and she got locked in she was spookied for the rest of the trip

SPOOKIE
i even saw a ghost scary

zoe says:

April 8, 2006, 12:38 pm

there was a man and a woman ghost they were dancin then they were kissin

SPOOKIE

zoe says:

April 8, 2006, 12:39 pm

IT WAS WEIRD HOW THE BABY AND HER HUSBAND DIED THE SAME WAY

chelsea minnis says:

April 9, 2006, 11:13 am

we went to speke hall and some thin was behind me and then it touched me

SPOOKIE

Soldier85 says:

May 23, 2006, 9:58 am

Sounds to me like your mind was playing tricks on you

catherine says:

June 25, 2006, 6:27 am

I visited Speke hall with my daughter and neice who were four and six at the time.After roaming the house quite excitedly they reached one of the bedrooms,their excited expressions quickly changed to expressions of horror and both girls refused to enter the room. My daughter pulled on my sleeve and asked if we could leave as she could hear wispering coming from the empty room. As you can imagine…I didn’t hesitate.

danny o'brien says:

July 11, 2006, 8:05 am

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Bill says:

July 14, 2006, 6:23 pm

I used to spend a lot of time at Speke hall as a child that was in the days when you could get in the grounds without having to pay. If there ever was any ghosts at the hall they probably got out of Speke like I did.

xxxxx says:

July 14, 2006, 6:27 pm

The whole Hayes family from Prenton Green along with Elizabeth Lam who is the whore girlfriend of one of the Hayes’s should all go to Speke Hall, go to the top and all jump to thier deaths.

angel says:

August 16, 2006, 5:35 am

danny iz dat ur phone number

caremn says:

September 14, 2006, 2:02 pm

dat was crazi

Katrina Browne says:

September 18, 2006, 4:08 am

I made a few visits to Speke Hall,on one school visit with Harrison Jones school when i was about 10yrs old,a lad and i thought it would be funny to lay on the monks bed,all of a sudden the felt tangible with hatred..Scared us half to death,but not as much as our teacher,Mrs Foster,did when she caught us laying there! Lol. If anyone has any local ghostly happenings to tell me about,could u please email me?Would love to share stories.. Thanks. galacticwarrior@o2.co.uk

larissa conant says:

October 5, 2006, 8:47 am

that is so not scary. i acually have like 5 ghosts in my house right this very min!

A curious person. says:

October 5, 2006, 6:58 pm

Well, why cant we and ghosts get along?…seriously! Maybe, If they happen to be aggresive ghosts, get an exorcist, if they are not aggresive, chances are they don’t care and you should just respect them.

melissa says:

October 26, 2006, 11:05 pm

Ghosts are not what we try to make of them . I live in Alabama and there is a 16 year old ghost here ! she even left me message about my dog . The note was on my answering machine it said,stop pedro!cause he used the bathroom on my rug.And she does`nt stop running up and down the stairs but i dont mind having a room mate.Her name is hannah and had heart failure.

Aisha says:

December 1, 2006, 9:23 pm

Is this story really true.If it is how could the lady kill her then her baby.I don’t beleave in ghost.You can say anything i’m not scared.

Alejandra says:

January 16, 2007, 5:54 pm

I definitely don’t believe that one!

Chantele says:

February 15, 2007, 8:12 am

I am not a sceptic and I do believe in paranormal occurences and stuff but this story sounds just like every other ghost story you hear, along with grey ladies. It just sounds a bit OTT. There may well be a lot of spirit activity going on in Speke Hall and of course it has a lot of history but I just don’t buy this.

dead baby says:

March 26, 2007, 7:09 am

Hi, i’m the dead baby,
don’t worry i’m not going to hurt anyone, i mean come-on i’m fine, i can type and everything. I hope you’re all well.
Yours fatally

De adbaby
x

jay says:

June 24, 2007, 1:18 am

ive never been to speke hall but heard loads about it and im really lookin forward to going

THE PREIST says:

September 12, 2007, 1:17 am

HEY IAM ONE OF THE PREISTS THAT ESCAPEDIN THE OLD TUNNELS OF SPEKE HALL (STILL TRYING TO GET OUT) ha hA
MAON MAON THATS ALL I HAVE TO DO ALL DAY LONGstill its aliving.

THE PREIST says:

September 12, 2007, 1:24 am

oh by the way sorry to say with me writing to into you
have just been sacked have been moved the roam around
in the gret court yard cleaning up the mess you visitors leave (thank you iam a ghost)do you knoe how cold it is out there

Forget-me-not says:

December 7, 2007, 2:12 am

I am a hard-boiled skeptic AND I also know that the so-called “paranormal” most definitely exists. (Yes, you can be both - and many people are.)

Reading some of Mr. Tom Slemen’s articles about “haunted Liverpool”, I recently learned about a story (initially I was going to write “THE story”, but I reconsidered - you’ll soon find out why) of one Maude Mooney (1890 - 1971), daughter of the caretaker at Speke Hall in 1901, and her “lover” from the distant past.

Now, the story in itself is beautiful and touching and what-not - but it struck me as… just not right. So I tried to find some more information about the gal. Nothing: all the relevant Google “hits” referred to Mr. Slemen’s website.

Bad sign.

So I pressed on, less and less convinced… I went to a huge genealogy database (Familysearch) and spent a good deal of time searching for the said Maud (or Maude).

I don’t know how complete the online British public records are, but I could find no individual in the database that would confirm even the existence of said Maud(e) - or her mother or her father, as named in Slemen’s article “Born Too Late”.

So I’ve come here… Has anyone ever heard about the story in question - I mean INDEPENDENTLY from Mr. Slemen’s article?

Rachel thompson says:

April 23, 2008, 5:45 am

My family and i have lived in Speke most of our lives an the story of Speke Hall an the Lady in the Woods is different from what has been commented on, on this site. One evening the man of the house had gone to play cards and lost the deeds to the house on his return home he told his wife of their plight and in dismay she tossed their baby out of the bedroom window and into the moat she then committed suicide herself. The cradle that the baby slept in is still in the bedroom now and it’s said that the 1st and last person to enter the room can hear the baby crying and see the cradle rock.

Jo says:

May 29, 2008, 1:53 am

I have heard the same story as Rachel (last comment) that the deeds to the house were lost in a card game and then the mother threw the baby out of the window then killed herself. I have been to Speke Hall many as it is not far from where I live and I can that I am a sceptic but I have had a couple of weird experiences there. I was in the bedroom with the very ornately decorated bed when I felt someone push me in the small of my back, when I turned thinking it was my friend there was no one behind me andno one was close enough to push me without me seeing them move.

Jo says:

May 29, 2008, 1:54 am

I have heard the same story as Rachel (last comment) that the deeds to the house were lost in a card game and then the mother threw the baby out of the window then killed herself. I have been to Speke Hall many times as it is not far from where I live and I can that I am a sceptic but I have had a couple of weird experiences there. I was in the bedroom with the very ornately decorated bed when I felt someone push me in the small of my back, when I turned thinking it was my friend there was no one behind me andno one was close enough to push me without me seeing them move.

cara doran says:

June 2, 2008, 2:01 pm

there was a teacher of mine that used to work there. And he told all of the class a story one day about him and his friend were cleaning down the stairs when they heard a little cryen sound they thought it might of been a cat but when they went up to check there was nothink there. Tey went back down the stairs and they heard it again they never found out were it was cuming from but deep down he belives it was the little baby that died in speak hall

sofie says:

July 1, 2008, 11:45 am

when i went and heard a baby screaming and then a lulaby was heard a few moments after the baby stopped crying. Plus you feel cold, and when you get by the tunnels you can hear little whispers saying help and ,then screams a few moments after. Also you can heae screams on the roof top
sookie !!!!!!

Graham says:

July 31, 2008, 12:29 pm

Hi,
We Live in Woolton in Liverpool and have been to Speke Hall many of times. The staff there have told us that nobody knows why there is a cradle in the house as the Lady who owned it never had a baby….dispite all the stories that are told about the house.
I think it is put there for effect to add a little mystery to the place and encourage people to visit.

ann says:

October 8, 2008, 7:11 pm

i have been to speke hall a few times and most of the house is ok but in one of the upstairs bedrooms there is a cradle and everytime ive been in that room i have felt a chill. i dont know if its my mind playing tricks because of the stories but now i refuse to go in that room.

Heather says:

October 10, 2008, 1:35 pm

About 25 years ago when I was seven or eight, the school took us on a day out to the hall and we were told the story of a Mary Norris who on discovering her husband had lost the deeds of the House, threw her baby out into the moat fearing that he would turn out to be like his Father. I’m not sure whether it was in this bedroom, I think it may have been a blue bedroom (?), that I heard very clearly, the sound of monks chanting.

I immediately looked at the other children, smiling, thinking it was a sound effect used to scare us but the others were oblivious and looked ahead. I don’t really take Tom Sleman seriously but I did ask his about it and he told me of a case about a time slip! So I’ve tried occasionally to look into the history of the grounds at Speke and at the monastic buildings that once stood locally…but I haven’t had much luck. Does anyone know of any such buildings that were near to the hall?

Lynn says:

October 17, 2008, 8:50 am

What good is listing these hauntings if there is no address ?? I just moved to the area and thought that with the halloween spirit I would go out and look up some real hauntings but have no clue where they are !! Also does anyone come out to houses and do saonces ? Me and my finace just moved into an old house where the couple died and were thinking it would be a cool house warming party and get to see whats in the house besides ! get back to me by leaving a comment on this site - THANKS !

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