Ely Cathedral stands on the former island at the heart of the Fens and was a Benedictine monastery until the Dissolution. Ghost listings for the city agree on one resident: a monk who wanders the aisles after dark.
Spooky Isles describes him as a spectral figure gliding silently through the gloom with his cowl drawn low over his face. Visitors are said to feel an oppressive chill as he passes or hear the soft rustle of robes in the empty building, and to have an unshakeable sense of being watched while standing under the lantern tower at night. A second directory, The Haunted Hub, adds that a shadowy monk is seen along the cloisters, that unseen singing is heard when the cathedral is empty, and that a headless bishop appears near the altar during evening services.
No date, witness or specific incident is given by either source, and the two lists read as summaries of the same stock tradition rather than separate investigations. The headless bishop in particular is given by one site only and is not corroborated elsewhere. The tradition is worth recording because the building's long monastic history makes a monk the expected ghost, but it is thinly documented.
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