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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

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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

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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

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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

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Giant poison shrews of Scotland

Dr KARL SHUKER reveals a little-known cryptid from northern Britain – the lavellan. Continue reading

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A haunted office in Lincoln

Daniel Codd relates an account of a misty figure that walks through walls in broad daylight Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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