St Mary's Church in Reigate carries two hauntings of markedly different character, one purely auditory and institutional, the other visual and intimately personal. The choir music, described as sudden blasts heard specifically within the church library when no one is present to be singing, suggests a haunting tied closely to the building's own genuine history of sung worship, an echo of countless services long since concluded still occasionally breaking through into the present at unpredictable moments.
The second haunting, a young girl dressed in a pinafore, an apron-like garment strongly associated with nineteenth-century children's clothing, gives her sighting an approximate period even without a documented name or date. She is consistently seen skipping, a specifically playful, cheerful movement rather than the sorrowful wandering more typical of this register's child ghosts, up the path through the churchyard, an ordinary approach to the church that countless real nineteenth-century children would have made on their way to genuine services, her continued repetition of that same innocent journey giving the haunting a gentle, almost wistful quality rather than anything frightening.
No names, specific dates, or documented incidents connecting either haunting to a known historical event have been traced in the sources consulted for this entry, and both are recorded as part of Reigate's wider, actively promoted local ghost walk tradition, a church whose considerable age has left it with two entirely separate, entirely benign hauntings sharing the same consecrated ground.
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