Ghosts

The Leper in the Birdcage

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

RICHARD HOLLAND revisits a grotesque story that helped get him hooked on ghost-lore

Three more of Dr Clay’s eerie tales

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

An invisible intruder, ghostly singing and an eerie and tragically prophetic dream.

Back from the depths

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Ghosts seem to have an affinity for water and there are many haunted rivers and lakes.

A ghostly coach and two phantom funerals

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Three more spooky snippets from the collection of the late Dr R C C Clay.

‘Surprising discovery of a murder’

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

How the mysterious phenomenon of the corpse candle exposed a murder and brought the perpetrator to justice. A yarn from the well-known penny dreadful, ‘The Terrific Register’.

He put out his hand to touch it, but…

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

From an unpublished personal collection of ghost accounts, a tale of a haunted Wiltshire churchyard.

The Scents of Culloden

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

The sweet smell of garden flowers is the last thing you’d expect on an infomous battleground - especially when it is on an isolatd upland moor.

‘Ghost’ guards suicide tree

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

A Derbyshire youth attempts a grisly dare but learns to regret his impudence when a being sporting a glwoing skull apears

Trapped by a spectre

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

An encounter with an appariton in the West Midlands led to a man spending a very uncomfortable night

Weirdness at Whittington

Monday, April 20th, 2009

An unusual ghost from Shropshire - how can it shriek without a head?