Borley Rectory is called “the most haunted house in England,” and the subject of intensive and controversial ghost haunting investigations. The investigation was conducted between 1929 and 1938 by Harry Price, founder
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 the early eighteenth century, Talland was perhaps best known for its vicar from 1713–47, the Revd Richard Dodge. ‘Parson Dodge’ was a ghost-layer or exorcist of extraordinary power. Robert Hunt in
Marazion is an ancient town on Mount’s Bay in Cornwall, England, opposite St Michael’s Mount, and is associated with an unusual Arthurian supernatural tradition according to which King Arthur survived in enchanted
Gilsland, on the Northumberland–Cumberland border, is in modern gazetteers assigned to Northumberland, Gilsland Spa to Cumberland. Nineteenth-century authors do not always make this distinction. William Henderson, for example, in his Folk-Lore of
A belief once prevailed in the western districts of Cornwall that Porthcurno was its principal port until the cove became ‘sanded up’. Some said this was the work of Jan Tregeagle of
On the summit of Trencrom Hill, commanding a view over land and sea, is the small Iron Age hillfort of Trencrom Castle. Like other hill-forts and cliff-castles, it was later said to
Given that strange noises made by trickling water, distant tunnelling, and other mining operations were habitually heard by miners working in darkness and often alone, it is scarcely surprising that England has
In 1860, Mackenzie Walcott recorded the tradition that, near Ulpha, ‘a lady was destroyed by a wolf at the well of Lady’s Dub.’ Others say that this was the lady of Ulpha
In a letter written on 12 December 1874 while he was staying at Ripley Castle, Augustus Hare recorded the story of a moment-of-death apparition which he had heard there: Another story which
Southery ‘The Legend of the Southery Wolf-Hound’, told by W. H. Barrett in Tales from the Fens (1963), says that, when Southery was an island, cut off by Southery Fen, monks came
The house still known as Chicksands Priory was originally a foundation of the comparatively rare Gilbertine Order. Dissolved with other religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII, in 1587 it became
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