Posts Tagged ‘Ghosts of Britain’
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.
Tags: British ghosts, English ghosts, ghosts in Britain, Ghosts of Britain, ghosts of England, ghosts of Hull, haunted Hull, haunted Humberside, Hull ghosts, Humberside ghosts
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
One that got away and a few unpublished ghosts from the archives
Tags: British ghosts, ghosts in Britain, ghosts in England, Ghosts of Britain, ghosts of England, ghosts of Scotland, ghosts of Sussex, ghosts of Wales, haunted England, haunted Scotland, haunted Sussex, haunted Wales, Scottish ghosts, Sussex ghosts, Welsh ghosts
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
A lady painter soon regretted choosing the infamous Borley Rectory as a subject for her brush
Tags: Borley Rectory, British ghosts, Essex ghosts, ghosts in Britain, ghosts in England, ghosts in Essex, Ghosts of Britain, ghosts of England, ghosts of Suffolk, Harry Price, Haunted Britain, Suffolk ghosts
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Corpse roads used to convey the dead in medieval times are often reported as haunted
Tags: Avebury avenue, Black Dogs, British ghosts, corpse ways, Dartmoor corpse road, ghosts in Britain, Ghosts of Britain, Haunted Britain, haunted roads, Paul Devereux, phantom funerals, spirit roads, spirit ways
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Sometimes a whiff of the past is the only evidence of a haunting
Tags: British ghosts, East Anglia ghosts, Essex ghosts, ghosts in Britain, ghosts in East Anglia, ghosts in England, Ghosts of Britain, ghosts of East Anglia, ghosts of England, ghosts of Essex, ghosts smells, Haunted Britain, haunted East Anglia, haunted England
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Weirdness in a country churchyard
Tags: British ghosts, Devon, Devon ghost, ghost hole, ghosts in Britain, ghosts in England, Ghosts of Britain, ghosts of Devon, ghosts of England, Haunted Britain, haunted churchyard, phantom hole, Yealmpton
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Two amazing cases where people in peril of their lives were saved thanks to their rescuers’ dreams
Tags: British ghosts, Dee estuary, dreams save lives, Flintshire, ghosts in Britain, ghosts in Wales, Ghosts of Britain, ghosts of Wales, Haunted Britain, haunted Wales, Mold, Montgomeryshire, Powys, premonition, prophetic dreams, Welshpool, Wirral
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
‘Barrow-wights’, horrible creatures that haunt ancient barrows in Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’, have their antecedents in British folklore
Tags: British ghosts, Flintshire, Gabbygammies, Gappergennies, ghosts in Britain, Ghosts of Britain, haunted ancient monument, haunted barrows, Haunted Britain, haunted burial mound, haunted tumuli, Llanasa, Manton Round Barrow, Marlborough, Wiltshire
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Mystery of the prehistoric ritual site at Avebury is heightened by an apparition seen among the stones
Tags: Avebury fairy sighting, Avebury ghost, British ghosts, English fairies, fairies in Britain, fairies in England, fairies in stone circle, ghosts in Britain, ghosts in England, Ghosts of Britain, haunted ancient monument, Haunted Britain, haunted stone circle, Wiltshire ghosts
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