The Hellfire Caves: Secret Rituals and Reported Ghosts Beneath West Wycombe
About 6 min readDug by hand between 1748 and 1752 for Sir Francis Dashwood, the Hellfire Caves hosted the secret meetings of his club — later called the Hellfire Club — in chambers beneath West Wycombe Hill, including an Inner Temple reached across a subterranean River Styx. The caves’ documented history is real, but the ghosts said to haunt them, a maid called Suki and the club’s steward Paul Whitehead, rest on conflicting legends with no contemporary record.