Coldhill Estate was built at the behest of Horsingdon Borough Council in the late 1960s - one of the experiments in utopian social housing common at the time; yet within a decade of its construction, the estate had fallen into a rapid social and economic decline, with a rising crime rate and many of the apartments left untenanted due to disrepair.
Notably, Coldhill Estate had, by this time, acquired a reputation for being haunted; this was not, however, a straightforward case of spectral figures seen stalking its corridors, but more a feeling - widely expressed by many of the tenants - that there was something 'not quite right' about the place. People moved out as quickly as they moved in, and fewer and fewer families were willing to accept the offer of being housed there on account of rumours that a number of children from the estate had disappeared inexplicably.
Some have claimed that the strangeness which seems to cluster about the place is a by-product of its architecture - an experimental design supposedly produced by the Ministry; local folklorists have, on the other hand, argued that Chalkhill has demonstrable historic associations with the witchlore of the region - the site having long ago been cursed after a mass execution of witches occured there in the mid-16th century; others will tell you that the estate was built above a barrow within which something dark and primal slumbers.
Whatever the case, the place is best avoided at all cost - if not for the sake of your physical wellbeing, then for the sake of your soul.
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