Tagg's Island sits in the middle of the River Thames near Hampton Court Palace. Once said to be haunted by a gypsy curse, many who set up home there have been doomed to failure.
Current owner Grant Braban said the curse was apparently lifted several years ago and takes reassurance that the last two owners didn't suffer the same fate. But even he has suffered some bad luck - his houseboat burned down on the island in 2019.
Once part of the Crown Estate, the island was reportedly bought in around 1850 by a man named Francis Jackson Kent who evicted several squatters from it. According to the legend, one of those squatters was a gypsy who placed a curse on the island so anyone who owned the land would go bankrupt.
