Gallows Green, Tadcaster

A detached house on the York–Tadcaster road, built on the site known as Gallows Green, gained a reputation for ghostly lights and moving shadows after its owner, a Nigerian doctor, took his own life there. Locals reported seeing flickering lights in the empty property, said to resemble “corpse candles” — death-omens once associated with places of execution. The name Gallows Green recalls its grim past as a hanging site, giving rise to speculation that the haunting reflects echoes of older tragedies.