The Leper in the Birdcage

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

Tags: Berkshire ghosts, British ghosts, English ghosts, ghost Birdcage Inn, ghost Thame, ghosts Britian, ghosts England, haunted Berkshire, Haunted Britain, haunted England, haunted Thame
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Back from the depths

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

Tags: British ghosts, Elliott O'Donnell, ghost Thirlmere, ghost Thirsk, ghosts Britain, Haunted Britain, haunted lakes, haunted London, haunted rivers, London ghosts, Thames ghosts
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A ghostly coach and two phantom funerals

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

Tags: English ghosts, Ghosts of Britain, Haunted Britain, haunted England, haunted Wiltshire, phantom funeral, phantom stagecoach, Wiltshire ghosts
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Trapped by a spectre

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

Tags: assault by ghost, British ghosts, English ghosts, ghost assault, ghosts in Britain, ghosts West Midlands, Haunted Britain, haunted England, haunted West Midlands, Stourbridge ghost, UK ghosts, Whittington Common ghost
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The icy grip

A woman running through a wood to escape a storm is caught by an invisible, skeletal hand

Tags: British ghosts, English ghosts, ghost assault, ghostly hand, Ghosts of Britain, haunted England
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A new story has just been uploaded under the Fairies section. Thanks to Robert Snow for supplying more of his own personal experiences of the supernatural - they will be appearing shortly. PLEASE if you have a story to tell or an article you’d like to write, do let the editor know.

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The banshee of the Fens

Unearthly howling in a house beside the Norfolk marshes may have warned of a man’s death. Was it a Banshee? Or was it Black Shuck?
By Richard Holland
The weird world of death omens has been discussed in previous articles on Uncanny UK. I have just heard a fascinating and eerie first-hand account of such a phenomenon [...]

Tags: banshee, Black Shuck, British ghosts, East Anglia ghost, ghosts in Britain, Ghosts of Britain, ghosts of England, Haunted Britain, haunted England, Norfolk ghost, omen of death
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Uncanny stories (part 2)

More uncanny stories from around the UK
By Richard Holland
Continuing our selection from a book of ‘Uncanny Stories’ published in the 1920s:
GLOUCESTERSHIRE - Do houses have ghosts? Walking on Stinchcombe Hill in Gloucestershire one day I suddenly saw three gables of a large house over the tops of some trees. I was fairly familiar with the [...]

Tags: Avon ghosts, Bath ghosts, British ghosts, crisis apparition, Edgware Road ghost, ghosts in Britain, haunted bed, Haunted Britain, Leicester ghost, phantom house, Stinchcombe ghost
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