Tag Archives: Ghosts of Britain

Guardians of the burial mounds

‘Barrow-wights’, horrible creatures that haunt ancient barrows in Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’, have their antecedents in British folklore Continue reading

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The haunted stone circle – fairies or ghosts?

Mystery of the prehistoric ritual site at Avebury is heightened by an apparition seen among the stones Continue reading

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Eerie experience under the Forth Bridge

‘Help!’ cried a voice in the dark – but there was no one there. Help had, presumably, come too late Continue reading

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The poltergeist that ruined Christmas

An invisible entity brought chaos to a Welsh farmhouse over the Christmas of 1812 Continue reading

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All aboard the ghost trains

Engines from long ago are still trundling through the night, at least in Merseyside and Lincolnshire Continue reading

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Ghost ships of the Goodwin Sands

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

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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 … Continue reading

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The very tall man of Mollington

A very unusual, and previously unrecorded, ghost from Chester, Cheshire Continue reading

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More from the Beast of Brymbo

An animal-like spectre which may have been an earlier sighting of ‘The Beast of Brymbo’ Continue reading

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The Beast of Brymbo

Something devilish was lurking round a North Wales village in the 1980s Continue reading

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