Huyghe, Patrick
Patrick Huyghe is a science writer whose articles on cryptozoology have reached a large public through their appearance in a number of mainstream magazines. His…
Author: Lux Ferre
Tran Hong Viet
Tran Hong Viet, the chairman of the Zoology Department of Teachers Training College-Vietnam National University, has studied Vietnamese fauna for more than a quarter of…
Saola
The “Lost World” of Vietnam had a surprise for zoology in 1992; it would reveal an amazing new animal, known to the locals as the…
Shirebrook Colliery
Reported in the Sheffield evening newspaper the Star, in November 1958, was a spectral incident at Shirebrook colliery. John McGroary, an Irishman working there, saw…
Renishaw
Renishaw is the country house of the Sitwells, the Derbyshire family to which Sir Osbert Sitwell, Dame Edith Sitwell, and Sacheverell Sitwell belonged. The original…
Parson’s Tor
Towering over the upper reaches of Lathkill Dale, near Over Haddon, is a limestone crag formerly known as Fox Tor. Murray’s Handbook for … Derbyshire…
Magpie Mine
Magpie Mine, close to Ashford-in-the-Water and now a listed industrial monument, is like a number of other lead mines in the Peak District alleged to…
Highlow Hall
Highlow Hall is a small manor house of probably the sixteenth century, perched on top of a shoulder leading up to Smelting Hill and by…
Heage Hall
Heage Hall, later divided into cottages, had the reputation of being haunted. In Ghosts of Derbyshire (1973), Clarence Daniel writes that this reputation was actively…
Hayfield
S. O. Addy reports in Household Tales (1895) the tradition that, in the sixteenth century, all the dead in the cemetery surrounding the ancient chapel…
