Painswick
A remarkable number of ghostly traditions have been collected in and around this town in the mid twentieth century. A typescript in the Gloucestershire Record…
Author: Lux Ferre
Dursley
Phantom buildings are not so common in British folklore as ghostly riders or coaches, but they are occasionally mentioned. One such tale, which was told…
Dover’s Hill
Ghost stories which involve the tragic doom of star-crossed lovers are likely to date from no earlier than the nineteenth century, and probably circulated among…
Cold Ashton
One winter afternoon in the 1930s, the painter Olive Snell set out for Cold Ashton to visit a friend living there. She had been advised…
Chipping Sodbury
According to a story recounted to the folklorist Roy Palmer, a cat haunts the junction of Broad Street and High Street, but it is not…
Bisley
Near Bisley there is a large round barrow known as Money Tump which had the reputation of being haunted. J. B. Partridge reported in 1912…
Gibbons, William
Bill Gibbons first became interested in mystery animals during his childhood years in Scotland. After watching an early movie adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's…
Gaal, Arlene
Arlene Gaal was born and raised in a coal-mining town in southeastern British Columbia. In 1968 she and her husband, Joe, along with their three…
Ernst, William “Ted”
ERNST, WILLIAM ” TED” (1945- 1998) W. Ted Ernst and Robert W. Morgan incorporated the American Anthropological Research Foundation on July 11, 1974. It is…
Alvington
A chapbook printed in 1703 and entitled A Gloucestershire Tragedy gives a lurid account of a scandal and crime which had supposedly just occurred at…
