The vicarage or church house next to All Saints Church on Corn Street has a long haunted reputation. Bristol24/7 dates the worst of it to April 1846, when Mr and Mrs Jones, who lived in the house next door to the church, were so troubled by a nocturnal poltergeist that Mrs Jones leapt out of her bedroom window in fright. The article cites the Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette as reporting that Jones was certain they would die if they slept another night in the house.
Other versions place the same incident in 1840. Spooky Isles says the Jones family saw flickering lights and heard strange noises, with Mr Jones left shaking on the floor while Mrs Jones felt an urge to jump from a window. A VisitBristol guide from a ghost tour operator says that in the early 1900s a man dressed in black appeared and the male owner jumped out of the window, and Clifton Hotels dates a similar leap to the 1920s.
So the story has at least three dates and three jumpers. The core is consistent: the house next to All Saints on Corn Street had a bad reputation and someone, in at least one version a Mrs Jones in 1840 or 1846, fled through a window. This is a separate story from the black monk who is seen in the church itself, covered under All Saints Church.
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