Westwood Lodge lies close to Blythburgh on the Suffolk coast. A modern retelling of the area's hauntings says its former owner John Brooke died in 1652 at the age of 26 while travelling to Blythburgh, and that villagers called him the great troubler. His ghost was seen riding on horseback.
The sightings are said to have stopped in 1865, when a saddle and whip were found bricked up in a room at the manor. Both items were ceremonially burnt. The same account says that in the 1970s three police officers set an ambush at the house to test the stories. They saw nothing but heard strange sounds. It also mentions an eerie white woman in silk seen at the house, in the grounds and in the nearby lane.
The sources found for this are thin: a single modern article with no named witnesses, and no early document confirming the saddle and whip. It is kept as a local tradition and the date of 1865 should be treated with caution.
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