Crook, Cliff
Cliff Crook is the second half of a trivia question involving the movie Harry and the Hendersons, which features a character based on Crook and…
Month: July 2021
Corrales, Scott
Scott Corrales, a resident of Pennsylvania, is the foremost English/ Spanish-language investigator of the Chupacabras. A translator and author, he has been interested in natural…
Mosqueto
Mosqueto : Freshwater Monster of New York. Etymology: Oneida (Iroquoian) word. Distribution: Lake Onondaga, New York. Significant sighting: The Oneidas had a legend that a…
Chester-le-Street
John Webster, in his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (1677), gives an account of a murder here that was revealed by a ghost. He says that,…
Bishopswearmouth
In the eighteenth century, Building or Beyldon Hill had an eerie reputation. In 1767, during a lawsuit against a man called John Thornhill, a woman…
Winterborne Abbas
Here, as at LULWORTH, there is a story of a seventeenth-century sighting of a phantom army initially assumed to be real and subsequently interpreted as…
Tarrant Gunville
This village can boast of a vivid ghost legend recorded in the 1880s, the modern versions of which have developed hints of vampirism. The ghost…
Stourpaine
Here, as at PIMPERNE, the ghost of a dog dragging a rattling chain is said to run invisibly through the village square, heading for the…
Pimperne
According to tales collected orally around 1970, something invisible, but which drags rattling chains, can be heard running wildly from Letton Hill to Pimperne; those…
Netherbury
The folklorist J. S. Udal, who collected much Dorset material in the late nineteenth century, published the following anecdote in 1922. There was once a…
