Category: Haunted England

Murray’s Handbook for … Cumberland (1866) reports the tradition of a spectral army having been seen marching over Helvellyn on the eve of the battle…

From the Dissolution of the Monasteries to the reign of King Charles II, the manor of Creslow was Crown property, used as grazing land for…

Under the waters of Lake Thirlmere, on its north-west side, lies the village of Armboth along with several farms on the shore of the original…

In 1977 Cecilia Millson, herself a long-standing resident of Bucklebury, recorded a local anecdote concerning ghosts that were not what they seemed. At one time,…

Now restored and inhabited, Pengersick or Pengerswick Castle was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a ruin consisting of a single tower standing in a…

According to Enid Porter, writing in 1969, the two Jeremiah’s Tea Houses in Little Abington and Lagdon’s Grove, a wood near Bourne Bridge, perpetuate the…

In the nineteenth and also the twentieth century, people reported seeing the ghost of a white cat sitting on a post near the remains of…

Perhaps the most notorious haunting in the history of Penzance was that of a house in Chapel Street, near the parish church. The house, as…

Phantom ships are reputed to haunt the Solway Firth. Elliott O’Donnell, writing in 1954 of ‘nasty sea ghosts’, says: One such story is of a…

In Glimpses in the Twilight (1885), the Revd Frederick Lee reports that at West Drayton, in about 1749, the inhabitants became convinced that the vaults…