Tag Archives: Wiltshire

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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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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