The Berkeley Square Horror, also known as the Nameless Thing of Berkeley Square, was an infamous haunting that took place in the 18th-19th century in 50 Berkeley Square, London, England.
Manifestations
- Slopping/slithering noises
- A gray gelatinous creature
- Brown mist
- A white figure
- A ‘collection of shadows’ with clawed feet and razor sharp, bird-like talons.
- A grotesque man, with a hideously-large mouth
- A ‘vortex of spiralling energy’
- An ‘unknown shape’
- A shadowy figure
- A ‘small, viciously deformed octopus, pulling itself across the floor, leaving a viscous trail in its wake.’
- An amorphous being, formless and slimy
- A dark and shapeless spectral form
- Heavy footsteps
- A “presence”, that is felt
- A ‘shadow’
This story happened in Berkeley Square. Berkeley Square was constructed in 1740 by William Kent. Many important people had stayed there, few of them are from Winston Churchill that stayed in Building number 48, then George Canning stayed in Building number 50 and in this building the story was unfolded.
No one knows exactly when this building got its terrifying reputation, but the first incident was said to have happened in the late 17th century and started to escalate sometime in 1840 when newspaper reports began calling this building “disturbed”, “haunted”, and “inhabited by something truly demonic “.
