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Top 50 Most Haunted Places in Britain – 28

Uncanny UK editor Richard Holland continues his chart of the most haunted places in Britain. 28. WARWICK CASTLE: Warwick, Warwickshire The people running it describe Warwick as ‘Britain’s ultimate castle’ and they have some right to the claim considering its … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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The Leper in the Birdcage

RICHARD HOLLAND revisits a grotesque story that helped get him hooked on ghost-lore Continue reading

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Three more of Dr Clay’s eerie tales

An invisible intruder, ghostly singing and an eerie and tragically prophetic dream. Continue reading

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A ghostly coach and two phantom funerals

Three more spooky snippets from the collection of the late Dr R C C Clay. Continue reading

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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

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He put out his hand to touch it, but…

From an unpublished personal collection of ghost accounts, a tale of a haunted Wiltshire churchyard.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

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‘Ghost’ guards suicide tree

A Derbyshire youth attempts a grisly dare but learns to regret his impudence when a being sporting a glwoing skull apears Continue reading

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