This is my family ghost story, it happened some time in the early 1930’s. My mother, who was a young girl at the time, was sent to stay with her Grandmother. My Great Grandmother was a retired headmistress, but was… Continue Reading
This story starts with an advertisement in The Morning Post on the morning of the 19th August 1937. It read “FOR SALE. – Haunted Wardrobe. – Advertiser will be glad to deliver same to anybody interested, complete with ghost, which… Continue Reading
It originally came from a book called The Open Grave. It has everything, being weird by even 19th Century standards. I followed it back through a book by Hereward Carrington who took from More Real Ghost Stories by WT Stead … Continue Reading
This story as originally suggested by an article in Notes and Queries. It refers to a story in the autobiography, ” Memoirs of the courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna, in the years 1777, 1778, and 1779. Written by… Continue Reading
Now this Victorian bogeyman has returned. Of the current sources one of the best sources for the story of Spring Heeled Jack is on Mike Dash website. A professional historian he has researched a lot of new information on this… Continue Reading
From Animal Ghosts by Elliott O’Donnell, Phantasms of Cat and Baboon A sister of a well-known author tells me there used to be a house called “The Swallows,” standing in two acres of land, close to a village near Basingstoke.… Continue Reading
It Came from the Quarry This comes from Elliott O’Donnell’s Haunted Britain 1947 A weird account of a quarry pool haunting was told me one evening at the Faculty of Arts in Princes Arcade, Piccadilly, by a Mrs. Warner (1).… Continue Reading
THE MOVING STAIRCASE The following haunting appeared in Elliott O’Donnell’s Haunted Houses of London 1910. When I was living in Cornwall I met a Mr. Scaran, who told me of a house he had once rented in Wandsworth that… Continue Reading
Family Ghosts Or ghosts as omens Family Ghosts seem to be a form of Ghost widely recorded in folklore, and family history. The stories can have many different versions. They are attached to families and not to sites like a… Continue Reading
A Ghost on The Motorway The M25 Service area Mimms is unsurprisingly by the Village of South Mimms. The church and churchyard had in the 1930’s the reputation of being haunted. People standing by the churchyard at night have… Continue Reading