ALAN MURDIE checks into London's famous Langham Hotel to find some uninvited guests...
They were like men who drew the bow, and with another shout, their cloud of arrows flew singing and tingling through the air towards the German host…the singing arrows darkened the air; the heathen horde melted from before them.
Arthur Machen, The Bowmen, September 1914
Despite the ease with which many people claim to effortlessly find paranormal manifestations, ghosts and hauntings do not come to order. But every so often a haunted site known from a generation or more ago suddenly produces a fresh crop of paranormal reports. Exactly this seems to have happened during the summer at the Langham Hotel, near Oxford Circus in London, where members of the English cricket team, and their wives and girlfriends, have been troubled by spooky goings on. Problems arose during the Test Match against Sri Lanka in June, when a number of players from the English team became "convinced" that this five-star hotel was haunted, with several requesting room changes and some finding their partners refusing to go there at all.![]()
