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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: Haunted Britain
Shropshire ghosts: a phantom horse chase
An exciting account of one of the more obscure of Shropshire ghosts: a spectral horse which had the habit of charging up a country lane after dark. This exciting incident took place in the 19th century near Llanymynech right on … Continue reading
Ghost cat scares the neighbourhood moggies
Uncanny UK editor RICHARD HOLLAND delves into the dark recesses of his memory to present a true tale of an unusual but rather charming little ghost. About 25 years ago I was on a coach travelling down to Somerset when … Continue reading
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Tagged British ghosts, cat ghost, ghost cat, ghost pet, ghostly cat, ghosts in Britain, Ghosts of Britain, Haunted Britain, pet spirit
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The headless and the heedless
RICHARD HOLLAND considers a few examples of haunted burial mounds and wonders why so many of their associated ghosts are described as headless. Could it be down to the robbing of skulls? It is said that a headless horseman rides through … Continue reading
Another Wiltshire ghost
A visitor to Uncanny UK forwards an account of an apparition previously unrecorded but whose existence is at least partly backed up by an account in a recently published village history. Continue reading
The ghost that bit
A young woman has a peculiar and perhaps unique interaction with a wraith that wakes her in her bed. Continue reading
The Leper in the Birdcage
RICHARD HOLLAND revisits a grotesque story that helped get him hooked on ghost-lore Continue reading
Three more of Dr Clay’s eerie tales
An invisible intruder, ghostly singing and an eerie and tragically prophetic dream. Continue reading
Back from the depths
Ghosts seem to have an affinity for water and there are many haunted rivers and lakes. Continue reading
A ghostly coach and two phantom funerals
Three more spooky snippets from the collection of the late Dr R C C Clay. Continue reading
The Avebury Lodge Mystery
The second of two articles about strange incidents in the Wiltshire village of Avebury, collected by the late R C C Clay: one of those inexplicable little events that though linked to ghostly activity are otherwise hard to categorise. Continue reading