50 Berkeley Square, London.
Dubbed as the most haunted house in London number 50 Berekeley Square is now used as a antiquarian book sellers and as also been made into offices. However everyone in Berekely Square are aware of the chilling ghost stories attached to the famous building.
One well known story is that in 1840 a man called Sir Robert Warboys was drinking in a local tavern with friends, whilst in this tavern he heard many disturbing stories about the house. "What a load of old nonsense" said Robert. His friends disagreed with him and challenged him to spend the night in the most haunted room on the second floor of the house, Sir Robert stood up and raised his drink in the air and said "Sir I whole heartedley accept your propesteour harebrained challenge ".
So later that night Sir Robert made his way over to the house and knocked on the door.The landlord answered and Sir Robert asked the landlord if he could do a vigil in the haunted room, the landlord tried to warn him but he didn't listen, Sir Robert was adamant that he was going to do the challenge. The landlord finally gave in and agreed but there was 2 conditions. One that Sir Robert would have't to take a pistol with him and two that he must pull the cord in the room if he saw anything, by pulling this cord the landlord's bell in his room would ring. Sir Robert agreed to this and so the landlord left him in the room at midnight in the candle light sitting at a table.
At 12. 45 am the landlord woke up to the sound of his bell ringing and a pistol gun shot. He immediately ran upstairs,he opened the door and there Sir Robert Warboys was, sat on the floor with a smoking pistol in his hand, he shot at something that was in front of him, the landlord followed where the gunshot was aimed. Sir Robert was dead, he died of traumatic shock and finding his corpse the way the landlord found him was a grisly find. Sir Robert's eyes were bulging and his lips were curled from his clenched teeth.
Thoughout the history of the house there is always stories of its hauntings. The four storey town house dates to the 1740's and even then rumours circulated that a nasty spirit was in the building. The house was also the London home of Prime Minister George Canning (1770-1827). George canning died at Chiswick so it would be very unlikely that the ghost of the house would be him.The hauntings of the house used to be that bad that even the neighbours used to hear strange things . The house spent a lot of time being vacant. When the house was empty the neighbours used to hear loud heavy footsteps, bumps on the stairs and dragging sounds.
In the 1900's the house really started to become famous for its hauntings. A maid also lived in the house once and she was found in the haunted room paralysed with fear, she never recovered from this and went mad. There are many other stories about the house, apparently at night time many say that you can see faces looking out of the upper windows.