 The passage was known to be haunted and so fearful were the local inhabitants that the Bishop was called in to exorcise the ghost.Whether the passageway was used by the monks as a route to the church or as hiding place for Catholic sympathizers at the time of the Reformation has yet to be discovered, but with the coast just fifteen minutes walk away and Alderton's close proximity to the Deben Estuary at Ramsholt, this area has long been a popular landing point for Suffolk smugglers.The poet Giles Fletcher was rector of St. Andrew's from 1619 until his death in 1623.