Glossop's rectory carries one of the more dramatic, if thinly sourced, ghost stories in the town: two figures, a man dressed in black robes and a thin woman in a dark dress, both reported within the building. Local tradition gives a specific, if uncorroborated, explanation for the pairing: that the man was a priest once resident at the rectory, murdered by his own wife, and that she herself returned to haunt the building alongside him, whether from guilt, punishment, or simple attachment to the place where the crime occurred.
No date, names, or documentary record of any such murder survive in the sources available, and the story should be read as local oral tradition rather than a case with any supporting historical record, though the specificity of the murder motive, unusually pointed for this kind of general haunted-building report, does give it more narrative shape than many of the thinner entries gathered from Derbyshire's directory listings.
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