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Dering Woods The Dering Woods, also known as Screaming Woods are situated in Kent. Between the villages of Smarden and Pluckley.

(Woodland Trust;) This ancient, semi-natural woodland is a nature lover’s dream. It has an amazing array of plants and wonderful wildlife, such as nightingales, dormice and many species of butterfly. You’ll also find relics of its fascinating history, stretching from medieval times to the Victorian age.

All this, together with the extensive network of paths, including two waymarked trails, makes a visit to Dering Wood a great day out. Just remember that it’s a lowland wood, so if you visit in winter, or the weather’s been wet, take your wellies with you!

The Woods are well know buy many to be one off the scariest in the entire UK, with a history off ghost sightings and massacres the horrors story's don’t seem so far fetched.

The Massacre:(Haunting Nights)

The Dering Wood Massacre The woodland has been the center of attention for this phenomena for many years. On the morning of November 1st, 1948, twenty people from the Maltman’s area were found dead, eleven of whom were children. The bodies were forming a massive pile of human flesh and they didn’t present any wound. Many reported seeing strange lights coming from the forest on the night of Halloween, when the massacre took place. The autopsies couldn’t determine the cause of death and after a few weeks the local authorities quickly ended the investigation, stating that the cause was carbon monoxide poisoning. This behavior raised questions about a possible involvement of the police in the matter at the time.

In 1964, private investigator Robert Collins conducted in-depth witness interviews designed to uncover hints about the alleged activity of an unknown religious cult in the village of Smarden. His research stopped after he died in a tragic car accident the following year. Cover of the Kent Messenger, Friday November 6th, 1998. The Dering Wood was home for another mystery when on October 1998, on the same night of fifty years before, four college students who were visiting the forest went missing after people from Pluckley reported seeing “figures of light similar to spider webs” in the sky. Their bodies were never found and after three weeks, the police investigation stopped. It‘s a strange tail that Haunting Nights couldn’t miss so join us on one of the most scariest Ghost Hunts yet as we take you to the scream forest.

Ghost Sightings; (Kent Live)

- Highway man hauntings With a name like Fright Corner, it's unsurprising this road in Pluckley is the site of one of the ghosts who is said to regularly appear

- Haunted horses The sound of ghostly horses hooves would definitely chill the blood - and people living in Pluckley have to put up with these regularly.

Visions of a horse drawn carriage, along with the clip clop of horses hooves, haunt Maltman's Hill, according to locals.

A babysitter even reported seeing the coach as if it was real, with light pouring from its windows as horses pulled it along the street.

And back in 1997 one driver almost crashed when they heard the clatter of hooves on cobbles on a tarmac road.

- Red lady in the grave yard

Few places are spookier than a cemetery, and Pluckley's is even more terrifying than most.

Lady Dering was buried in the graveyard of the local church, St Nicholas, in the 1100s in a coffin made of lead with a red rose place on top of her final resting place.

There have been sightings of her, now known as the red lady after her rose, wandering the grave yard and wailing while she searches for the grave of her stillborn baby.