In most parts of northern England, ‘dobbie’, ‘dobby’, or ‘dobie’ is a name for a helpful household elf or goblin. In James Bowker’s Goblin Tales of Lancashire (1883), however, there is an
Blickling Hall Blickling Hall, standing amid the Norfolk countryside near Aylsham, is associated with one of England’s darkest traditions of the phantom coach. The magnificent Jacobean mansion seen today replaced an earlier house belonging to the Boleyn family, and although
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
The Hall at Husbands Bosworth is haunted by a ghost thought to be the restless shade of a Protestant lady suffering eternal remorse for refusing to allow a Catholic priest to come
Appearing in the Leicester Chronicle, 20 June 1874, was notice of ‘The Bloody Tomb’ at Hinckley. Children and strangers used to be taken in the month of April to see the ‘bloody
On the south-east border of Charnwood Forest, near Newtown Lindford, is Bradgate Park, and the ruins of the brick mansion built c.1490–1505 by Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset. It is chiefly remembered
Upwood House was once lived in by the Hussey family. Charles Tebbutt in Huntingdonshire Folklore (1984) reports that, in 1757, the occupants were Thomas Hussey and his daughter Maria Ann. She wanted
Peterborough: The Wild Hunt and the Spectral Hunters of 1127 Among the oldest and most remarkable accounts of a supernatural hunt in medieval England is the apparition recorded at Peterborough in 1127.
According to a story collected by the folklorist James Bowker in the 1880s, there was once a young vicar in this village whose reclusive habits and scholarly tastes caused his parishioners to
A pair of damaged skulls used to be displayed in a glass case in the fifteenth-century manor house of Turton Towers (now a museum), but they are currently kept locked away in
In this village, midway between Preston and Blackburn, stands a fine though much-restored timber-framed mansion, the High Hall, parts of which date from the fifteenth century. The ghost which is said to
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