One of England's most haunted places controls the entire country's finances

In the heart of London's financial district, those who work at the bank at the centre of the country’s finances are said to be hauntedby one of the most persistent entities in the country.

The Bank of England, which should be the safest place in the UK, topped Stribe’s list of haunted workplaces. The central UK bank ishaunted by The Black Nun, Sarah Whitehead.After her brother, Paul, a former Bank employee, was executed, she reportedly spent years mourning outside the building, according to The Georgian Era.

Paul was executed for forgery, but made sure that the devoted Sarah would not find out about his crime and death. But there was only so long this could last - and when he failed to return home after a period, Sarah marched to the bank and asked the staff, “Have you seen my brother?”.

These would be the tragic words that followed her to the afterlife and still ring around the halls of the grand building to this day.

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The bank staff continually lied to Sarah, and when she returned day after day, they simply said, “He is not in today, Sarah, but we’ll tell him that you were inquiring after him”, as per London Beyond Time and Place.

This continued until one fateful day when a younger bank employee, unfamiliar with the bank’s cruel strategy, broke the news to her, revealing that Paul had been hanged.

Sarah was beside herself and, despite the news, returned to the bank each day in black, earning her the name 'The Black Nun'- asking, “Have you seen my brother?”

Her daily disturbances eventually became so severe that, around 1818, the Bank Directors paid her a large sum of money on the condition that she never return to the premises. She honoured this agreement in life.

However, in death, her spectre has broken the contract many times, with her apparition reported to be seen not only in the surrounding Threadneedle Street but also in the Bank's inner courtyard and the tunnels of the nearby Bank Underground Station, still endlessly searching for her lost brother.

Sightings continue to this day. Sarah’s ghost - which also roams around Bank Station has been reported to have chased people asking for her brother. The station as a whole is said to be haunted, bombed in 1941 with a loss of 19 lives, as per London Museum.

Spooky Isles Ann Massey McElroy wrote: “Commuters have often spoken of an overwhelming sense of despondency and apprehension in the dim walkways and tunnels, with witnesses hearing wailing and moaning echoing along the platforms.

“One worker claims to have chased a woman matching Sarah’s description through the locked station, only for her to have vanished into thin air.

"Perhaps the tortured souls that remain within Bank Station are kindred spirits for Sarah Whitehead, and she feels at home with their eternal angst.”