Hazel Grove is a former coaching village on the old road south from Stockport, grown into a suburb but still sitting at the point where the urban sprawl meets open country. Its position on an ancient road corridor connecting Stockport to the south and east gives it a longer history than its current appearance suggests.

Its ghost lore is dominated by a single poltergeist case from the mid-twentieth century that attracted sustained local press attention across several years. The account is among the better-documented poltergeist cases in the region, with multiple witnesses and a substantial contemporary record, and it holds up to scrutiny better than many similar reports.