Britain’s Lost Ghosts is where I gather the real ghost stories that history has mislaid, hauntings that were reported and argued over in their own day before slipping quietly into the mists of time. Every case here comes from my own original research in old newspapers, papers and archives, not from the handful of well-worn tales repeated across other ghost websites, and many have not been told since they first appeared in print.
We all know Halloween is a silly season in the media where it is common to read about the ‘top 10 …