Month: December 2021

Caister Castle was built by Sir John Fastolf in about 1420. The Revd John Gunn of Irstead wrote in 1849: ‘The marvellous account of a…

It was no doubt thanks to its combination of hoary antiquity and later neglect that Waxham Hall acquired the reputation of being haunted. By the…

In the churchyard at Thurlton, on the north side of the church, is the Wherryman’s Gravestone. Carved with the picture of a Norfolk wherry, it…

According to W. G. Clarke, in his In Breckland Wilds (1926), many years ago, a spectre known as ‘the White Rabbit’ haunted parts of Thetford…

Of old, the town consisted of Upper and Lower Sheringham, one a prosperous agricultural village, the other a poor fishing community. On the boundary of…

According to nineteenth-century report, an apparition known as ‘the Long Coastguardsman’ walks the Norfolk coast from Bacton to Mundesley every night just as the clock…

Mannington Hall was the setting for a ghost story well known in the nineteenth century. The antiquary Dr Augustus Jessopp, staying at the Hall on…

One of the best-known tales of the phantom coach in Norfolk is attached to the massive tomb of Edmund Reve (d. 1647) and his wife…

Ernest Suffling, in his History and Legends of the Broad District (c.1890), tells the story of the Hickling Skater, or, as he is sometimes called,…

One of the most macabre hauntings in Norfolk is that of the ‘Pump Hill Ghost’ at Happisburgh, reported by Ernest Suffling c.1890. In the eighteenth…