These Real Ghost Stories,which have been published as “Real” Ghost Stories. I have not chosen them because I believe them. They chosen because they are weirder and more interesting that most “Real”Ghost Stories.
Welsh Death Omens and Famous Ghost Stories Welsh Death Omens There is an abundance of Omens of death in Wales. Here are some of them. The Canwyll Corph or corpse candles. The ghostly lights, which are interpreted as a sign… Continue Reading
This story from Adelaide South Australia was sent to me by somebody who visited this website, liked it and sent this his own ghost story. He has very kindly allowed to put it in the website. In his own words.… 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
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
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
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