Thorpe Park, near London, is touted as England's wildest and splashiest theme park. The Tidal Wave offers thrills for people who like water rides. People who enjoy scary amusements can ride on the Saw Alive Horror Maze, based on the shock movie, Saw. The newest ride, scheduled to open this year, is the Storm Surge, a sixty-four foot serpentine-shaped water ride. People can sit on life rafts and spin and twist in whitewater rapids. Like ghosts? The park has a resident spectral headless monk and at least one poltergeist prankster.

Thorpe Park Workers Sight Headless Monk’s Ghost

When workers who were constructing the Storm Surge reported seeing what resembled a headless monk roaming on the building site and objects moving by themselves, sensing that someone was watching them over their shoulders and experiencing cold spots, Thorpe Park’s managers decided move the ride. The plans were to build it in the vicinity of the Monk's Walk. This aged path has linked Chertsey Abbey’s ruins to Thorpe Church since 666 CE. The ride's foundations were to be constructed fifty feet deep in a part of the park where stone coffins had been excavated. The theme park’s managers contacted paranormal and forensic teams to investigate.

Paranormal Team Investigates Haunted Thorpe Park

The group discovered that an ancient burial ground or settlement might have been disturbed by the construction, as renovations and restorations do. Jim Arnold, investigator from South West London Paranormal, said that they photographed orbs and spectral images. The Ouija board’s planchette moved the most intensely around the site where the managers were planning to build the Storm Surge. The investigators concluded that ancient burial ground or settlement had been disturbed, which induced the paranormal activity.