Milton Keynes might be the last place anyone would expect to find a rich haunted history. Built from the ground up around sixty years ago, it is a city of grid roads, roundabouts, underpasses, concrete cows and carefully planned estates. It has no ancient city walls, no labyrinth of medieval streets and few of the crumbling buildings traditionally associated with ghosts. To many outsiders, it appears rational, modern, and perhaps even a little soulless. But what happens when someone takes the time to ask whether the city is haunted? Since April 2025, psychologist, writer and photographer Dr Steph Lay has been attempting to find a first-hand account of something uncanny in every one of Milton Keynes’s grid squares. What began as an apparently impossible challenge soon uncovered a hidden city of apparitions, phantom footsteps, haunted homes, poltergeist activity and strange encounters in the most ordinary of places.