Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Mitchell may seem fairly unremarkable names, however both of them died of fright after encounters with ghosts.…
Britain’s Lost Ghosts
A tiny village near Market Harborough was the focus of many ghost hunters in 1933 after a series of sightings hit…
“Rumour is going about that the Psychical Society has at last found a ghost.” The Society for Psychical Research, one of…
For years a ghost light haunted a remote Yorkshire Dales village’s road. Was it the ghost of a murdered woman or…
In March 1950, an auction at Stanbury Manor, Morwenstow in Cornwall brought an unusual item to the fore – a haunted…
In this second article about the weirdness surrounding Kirkstall Abbey (see The Kirkstall Abbey Ghost Hunt) I uncover the claims of…
“Kirkstall Abbey, near Leeds, famous ruins of which are beloved by antiquaries and pleasure seekers is reported to be haunted,” wrote…
For a fortnight in February 1888 the inhabitants of some unnamed village on the outskirts of Shrewsbury were afraid of night…
I always enjoy reading the archives of the Victorian Illustrated Police News for their plain silliness and over the top reporting. …