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
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, this alleged, the people of the village
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 lonely hollow running down to Pengersick Cove.
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 memory of Jeremiah Lagden (with an e),
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 Congleton abbey. If human beings approached, it
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 William Bottrell tells us in 1880, was
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 phantom ship that appears in the Solway
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 under the church were haunted. Strange noises
Black’s Picturesque Guide relates a supernatural tradition attached to Walla Crag: … within whose ponderous jaws the common people believe that the once errant spirit of Jamie Lowther (the first Earl of
In 1857, during restoration of Millbrook’s hilltop church of St Michael and All Angels, a large Tudor altar-tomb had to be dismantled and for financial reasons was never replaced. On it had
In the early eighteenth century, a phantom army was seen on Souther Fell, east of Blencathra. In 1747, the Gentleman’s Magazine published an account by someone who had spoken to witnesses of
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