Posts Tagged ‘English 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.

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.

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From an unpublished personal collection of ghost accounts, a tale of a haunted Wiltshire churchyard.

‘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?

The icy grip

Monday, March 16th, 2009

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

‘Spirit rappings’ at Hull - a marvellous sensation

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

A rave from the grave as a cause célèbre haunting is unearthed from an old edition of ‘The Times’. Quoted here verbatim, from an original report in the ‘Hull Packet’, this is a fascinating record of Victorian reportage, dated October 25, 1852.

Ghost ships of the Goodwin Sands

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Phantom ships have terrified witnesses for centuries near a sandbank in Kent where many have come aground