Johannes Cuntius: The Pentsch Vampire Johannes Cuntius, also known as the Pentsch Vampire, is one of the stranger cases in early modern vampire lore. His story comes from Silesia and was recorded
Indridi Indridason ( Indriði Indriðason ) – (1883–1912) Remarkable Icelandic physical Medium who exhibited numerous paranormal feats while under strict observation and was never caught in fraud. Indridi Indridason was born October 12, 1883, to a farming family in a
According to old writers, such was the medieval prosperity of Boston that when, during the proclamation of a tournament at fair time, a band of marauders dressed as monks fired the town
Earthworks and ruins at Old Bolingbroke, west of Spilsby, are all that remain of thirteenth-century Bolingbroke Castle, believed in the seventeenth century to be haunted by an animal ghost. Gervase Holles, in
Platts Stile on the footpath from Wymondham to Edmondthorpe was said to be haunted. Within living memory, said Roy Palmer in 1985, children were told not to pass that way after dark
Not far from Stoke Golding is the site of the battle of Bosworth Field (22 August 1485). Like other battlegrounds, it is said to be haunted: in 1985, Roy Palmer reported that
Staunton Harold Hall was the home of Laurence Shirley (1720–60), fourth Earl Ferrers, the last English peer to suffer a felon’s death. Although normally perfectly capable of managing his business affairs, he
A respectably antique ghost is one reported by John Nichols in his History … of Leicestershire (1795–1811). He writes: About midway between Sapcote and Stoney Stanton, over a rivulet, is a stone
In the forepart of the seventeenth century, Lutterworth was the scene of a disturbance by a ‘rapping spirit’ or poltergeist. Richard Baxter, in his Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits (1691), recalls
One of the family from whom Papillon Hall at Lubenham got its name was David Papillon (d. 1762), locally known as ‘Pamp’, ‘Old Pamp’, or ‘Lord Pamp’. He was greatly feared in
A contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1790 sent the editor a brief account of ‘the very best ghost which ever made its appearance in England’. He writes: It appeared for several
An account of 1875 speaks of a house at Kibworth known for ‘upwards of half a century’ to be haunted. It is said that one man killed another there, and afterwards ghostly
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