‘Every castle, tower, or manor-house, has its visionary inhabitants’, says Robert Surtees in 1820, and goes on to tell of perhaps the most famous in the County Palatinate of Durham, the Cauld
Earthworks and ruins at Old Bolingbroke, west of Spilsby, are all that remain of thirteenth-century Bolingbroke Castle, believed in the seventeenth century to be haunted by an animal ghost. Gervase Holles, in notes on Lincolnshire made in 1634–42, wrote: One
W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, writing in 1854, says that a spirit known by the name of Hob Hedeless (Headless) haunted the road between Hurworth and Neasham. His haunt was restricted because, like
In a green lane called Petty Lane at Glowrowram, near Chester-le-Street, used to be seen the ghost of a woman. When approached, the figure would fall down and spread out like a
According to W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, writing in 1854, the name ‘Glassensikes’ referred to ‘certain closes’ watered by a small stream of this name flowing into the Skerne. Glassensikes was haunted by
W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, in his history of the parish of Darlington (1854), speaks of ‘the unearthly tread of Lady Jarratt who still inhabits the old Manor House’. This house, on the
John Webster, in his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (1677), gives an account of a murder here that was revealed by a ghost. He says that, about the year 1632, near Chester-le-Street, there
In the eighteenth century, Building or Beyldon Hill had an eerie reputation. In 1767, during a lawsuit against a man called John Thornhill, a woman deposed ‘that her father went to the
Here, as at LULWORTH, there is a story of a seventeenth-century sighting of a phantom army initially assumed to be real and subsequently interpreted as some form of ominous vision linked to
This village can boast of a vivid ghost legend recorded in the 1880s, the modern versions of which have developed hints of vampirism. The ghost is that of a certain William Doggett
Here, as at PIMPERNE, the ghost of a dog dragging a rattling chain is said to run invisibly through the village square, heading for the hills. According to an informant in about
According to tales collected orally around 1970, something invisible, but which drags rattling chains, can be heard running wildly from Letton Hill to Pimperne; those that have tried to grab hold of
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