Appleby
About the end of the seventeenth century, says Jeremiah Sullivan, in Cumberland and Westmorland, Ancient and Modern (1857), a man well known in the neighbourhood…
Category: Haunted England
Wilcot
The manor house here is built on the site of a former monastery, and like others of similar history is said to be haunted by…
Tidworth
In 1681, Joseph Glanvill published his treatise Saducismus Triumphatus, ‘Saduceism Defeated’ – meaning by ‘Saduceism’ the doctrine of the Sadducees mentioned in the New Testament,…
Stourton
In 1930, the local writer Edith Olivier described various apparitions to be seen in and around Stourton. On New Year’s Eve, on a road near…
Stanton St Bernard
Ralph Whitlock’s book on the folklore of Wiltshire includes a macabre tale which his informants said had happened about a hundred years earlier, i.e. in…
Semley
A sinister story was collected by the folklorist Kingsley Palmer in 1969 about a skeleton nicknamed ‘Molly’ kept in Pythouse, a mansion near Semley: Molly…
Highworth
In 1922, the writer Alfred Williams, describing the countryside of this area, mentioned a story of ghost-laying which provides a humorous variation on this popular…
Heytesbury
In 1901, J. U. Powell reported to Folk-Lore that people of this village were telling vivid tales about how the ghost of a prominent member…
Upton-on-Severn
Here there is a ghost legend about a Captain Thomas Bound, a supporter of Cromwell, who died in 1667 and was remembered as a wicked…
Leigh
Jabez Allies, writing in 1852, recalled a tradition of his boyhood, which on his evidence seems to have been current in the eighteenth century: I…