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Here at Uncanny UK, we are always pleased to receive genuine accounts of encounters with the supernatural.
Perhaps you have seen a ghost, glimpsed a fairy or caught sight of a strange creature prowling through the countryside.
If you have had a weird experience, or can report one had by a relative, we’ll be very interested to hear about it. Uncanny UK is the place to record previously undocumented supernatural encounters.
Please send your story to: editor@uncannyuk.com
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Time slips in rural England
NICK REDFERN explores one of the most intriguing of all paranormal phenomena, incidents in which people apparently become immersed in another period in history. Within the specific genre of science fiction, fantastic tales of time-travel to the far-flung future or … Continue reading
Alone in the dark – some ‘hare-raising’ experiences
The natural world may account for some supposedly supernatural experiences, argues MARK GREENER – especially after dark. Around midnight, one very dark winter night, a police officer in rural West Cornwall was pounding his beat along the moor’s “desolate” border, … Continue reading
Posted in Ghosts, Weird Creatures
Tagged animal ghosts, badger folklore, British ghosts, ghosts Britain, hare folklore, Mark Greener, outdoor ghosts, rural ghosts
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Top 10 Fairy Sites: 10-6
JANET BORD is an expert on British fairylore and and I can heartily recommend her Traveller’s Guide to Fairy Sites (Gothic Image 2004). Janet has prepared a Top 10 of her favourite fairy-haunted sites (although with some difficulty) and I … Continue reading
The headless and the heedless
RICHARD HOLLAND considers a few examples of haunted burial mounds and wonders why so many of their associated ghosts are described as headless. Could it be down to the robbing of skulls? It is said that a headless horseman rides through … Continue reading
Giant poison shrews of Scotland
Dr KARL SHUKER reveals a little-known cryptid from northern Britain – the lavellan. Continue reading
A haunted office in Lincoln
Daniel Codd relates an account of a misty figure that walks through walls in broad daylight Continue reading
Another Wiltshire ghost
A visitor to Uncanny UK forwards an account of an apparition previously unrecorded but whose existence is at least partly backed up by an account in a recently published village history. Continue reading
Soles to save our souls
Jason Karl discusses one of the most frequently employed forms of ‘wards’: domestic magic used to protect a household from malign influences.
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A modern fairy sighting in North Wales
An encounter with a glowering goblin which suddenly appeared to a man out walking his dog. Continue reading
Posted in Fairies
Tagged Denbighshire, fairies, fairlylore, modern fairy sightings, St Asaph, Welsh fairies, Welsh fairylore
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The foul phantom of West Drayton
Full report of the best known ghostly bird from Britain, reprinted from the 1885 book Glimpses in the Twilight. Continue reading
Posted in Ghosts, Uncategorized, Weird Creatures
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