Ghost
Lucky Corner's Headless Woman
The luckiest corner on Foulness had the unluckiest ghost.
Private, don't visit
- What's there
- Restricted military island; corner not identified
- Legend from
- Victorian rustic belief
- Tone
- Eerie
Across these marshes lies Foulness, where a headless woman once haunted a spot called, of all things, Lucky Corner.
Foulness is a remote marsh island off the Essex coast. In 1867 the historian Philip Benton noted that a spot on the island called Lucky Corner was famous among country people as the haunt of the parish ghost, a woman without a head. In 1908 Edward Smith repeated the story, describing a ghostly woman carrying her head under her arm at a remote corner of Foulness. He said there was a similar headless woman near the ferry at Great Stambridge. No reason for the haunting or name for the woman is given. The island has long been a Ministry of Defence range, so the corner cannot be visited freely.