{
  "id": 2472288,
  "title": "A couple bought a £490,000 converted church despite its 'haunted' crypt",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/a-couple-bought-a-490-000-converted-church-despite-its-haunted-crypt",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-21T19:23:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/a-couple-bought-a-490000-renovated-19th-century-church-near-bristol-despite-a-haunted-crypt-hearing-whistling-and-footsteps-and-finding-tombstones-but-still-call-it-a-dream-home/articleshow/133413095.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A couple bought a renovated 19th-century church near Bristol for £490,000, calling it their dream home despite its former crypt basement. Mary says she has heard whistling and footsteps around the basement and has been unsettled by a hymn board that repeatedly falls. Tombstones also remain over the stove, adding to the property's eerie history.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}