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
The death of Christopher Chandler on the A3 is set to become modern classic ghost story. It is the manner of the finding of the body that makes the story. It appears in Philip Hutchinson’s fine book, Haunted Guildford and… Continue Reading
Room by the Sea This comes from Elliott O’Donnell’s Haunted Britain 1947 Blackpool and its neighbourhood have quite a number of alleged hauntings. Mrs. Deane M. Ward, after a talk I gave on “Werewolves” at the Faculty of Arts, when… Continue Reading
A3 Sniper In the 1950’s car windscreens were taken out by a unknown sniper. No bullet, pellet, or stone were found which had caused the damage. This was on the old A3 road between Cobham and Esher. The first to… Continue Reading
From ODDITIES by Rupert Gould 1922,1943. THE BERBALANGS OF CAGAYAN SULU (now know as Mapun) It is not generally known (and I do not state it as a fact) that certain American citizens (1) possess the ability to quit their… Continue Reading
Screaming Skulls – The Head of the House Screaming Skulls are a famous folkloric ghost story. The story is basically this, a human skull has been in a house for a long time, even centuries. If it is left alone… Continue Reading