50 Berkeley Square

[5] She purportedly threw herself from a top-floor window after being abused by her uncle[6] and is said to be capable of frightening people to death.

[7] A rarer version of the tale is that a young man was locked in the attic room, fed only through a hole in the door, until he eventually went mad and died.

[9] In 1879 a piece in the Mayfair Magazine alleged that a maid who stayed in the attic room had been found mad and had died in an asylum the day after.

[5] Modern interest in the site was spurred by its inclusion in Peter Underwood's book Haunted London (1975).

After he had lost his fiancée his behaviour "bordered upon lunacy" and he stayed in the house all day, becoming active at night, when he rambled about, making strange sounds.

[3][4] For example, the claim that sailors entered the house in the 1870s was invented by Elliott O'Donnell and there is no evidence to confirm any part of the story.