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What’s your story?
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
Tag Archives: animal ghosts
Encounter with a Pooka? Weird creature in Northern Ireland
RICHARD FREEMAN describes another strange and menacing critter from his files. This time, a possible encounter with a pooka or phouka – an animal-like entity found in Irish folklore. In 1997 in the Grayfield-Greencastle district four miles from Kilkeen in … Continue reading
Weird creatures of evil
RICHARD FREEMAN highlights three terrifying encounters with strange animal-like apparitions that seemed to emanate pure evil. In the 1950s writer Joan Forman was working in the village school in Goodhurst, Kent. During the first few days of the summer holidays, … Continue reading
Posted in Weird Creatures
Tagged animal ghosts, Essex ghosts, evil, ghost apes, ghost dogs, haunted essex, haunted Kent, Kent ghosts, Richard Freeman, zooforms
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Top 50 Most Haunted Places in Britain – 1
Uncanny UK editor Richard Holland reaches the top of his chart of the most haunted places in Britain. 1. TOWER OF LONDON: City of London One of the most anciently inhabited sites in Britain and a fortress even before the … Continue reading
Posted in Ghosts, Top 50
Tagged animal ghosts, dangerous ghosts, ghost animals, ghosts of London, haunted castles, haunted London, London ghosts, most haunted places in Britain, most haunted places in England, most haunted places in the UK, most haunted sites in Britain, most haunted sites in England, most haunted sites in the UK, Tower of London
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Top 50 Most Haunted Places in Britain – 9
One of England’s most beautiful old manor houses makes it into the top 10 of the chart of the most haunted places in Britain devised by Uncanny UK editor Richard Holland. 9. ATHELHAMPTON HOUSE: Dorchester, Dorset A private residence for … 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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A gaggle of ghosts
Two very unusual ghosts haunting churches or churchyards in Yorkshire. Continue reading