Posts Tagged ‘Ghosts of Britain’

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From an unpublished personal collection of ghost accounts, a tale of a haunted Wiltshire churchyard.

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.

The icy grip

Monday, March 16th, 2009

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

Chat with a dead Rector

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Cases where ghosts interact with the living are uncommon - but in very rare cases they have been known to converse with witnesses.

Phantom footsteps - on the roof

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Footsteps heard in empty rooms are commonly reported during hauntings - but footsteps heard on the roof? That’s much more unusual.

A gaggle of ghosts

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Two very unusual ghosts haunting churches or churchyards in Yorkshire.

Ghosts of the Commandery

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

One of the most historic buildings in Worcester, now a museum, is said to be haunted. When Uncanny UK’s guest writer visited the Commandery, they discovered that many members of staff had personally experienced ghostly manifestations.

Frightened women touched by a ghost

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

A sailor’s wife found their new flat in Devon distinctly creepy. She was convinced it was haunted. Then one day the ghost touched her.

‘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.