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Category Archives: Uncanny UK
Back again!
Well, here I am again. The last few months I’ve been intensively writing. I was commissioned to write FOUR (count ‘em) books, all with the deadline of the end of February! Since that deadline has passed I’ve been proofing them, … Continue reading
Top 30 Most Haunted Places in Britain
I’ve been cracking on with my suggested chart of the Top 50 Most Haunted Places in Britain – not quite daily as promised but very nearly. Now I’ve reached the Top 30! This means I’m now getting into really spooky … Continue reading
The ghost of the drunken miser
Tucked away in a remote corner of North Wales can be found a modest country house called Plas yn Rhiw. It must be one of the smaller ‘stately homes’ in the care of the National Trust. It’s right down on … Continue reading
>The Master Otter in Scotland
>Enthusiastic Irish cryptozoologist Gary Cunningham wrote an article for me on the so-called Master Otter and other cryptids from the Emerald Isle when I was editing Paranormal Magazine. This strange, savage lutrid is one of Ireland’s best known mystery beasts, … Continue reading
>Couple claim to have snapped ‘Bownessie’ on Lake Windermere
> The Daily Mail on Friday (Feb 18) printed an image of a wobnbly black thing on a misty lake – allegedly none other than ‘Bownessie’, the supposed monster of Windermere in the English Lakes. The photo was taken on … Continue reading
>Welcome to a new year, with John Stoker
> Spooks of the Christmas season are well-known but in the latest post of http://www.uncannyuk.com guest author John Stoker provides an interesting selection of ghosts from the post-Christmas, New Year period. A house that seems to travel in time and … Continue reading
>Miracle workers
>Mark Greener tipped me off about a story in regards to a new online catalogue which details more than 600 miracles that are said to have occurred in the Christian world – what happened, who to, where and when. The catalogue … Continue reading
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>New posts on Uncanny UK
>The two latest stories on http://www.uncannyuk.com include a delightful recollection of fairy belief in the Isle of Skye and a very weird account of a plague of spiders – possibly created through witchcraft – in Suffolk. More to come soon.
>The ‘Australian wild cat’
> I’m reading a crime adventure novel written in 1895 by the Australian writer Guy Boothby. A Bid For Fortune features an Australian hero and one of the earliest ‘master criminals’ in literature, Dr Nikola. As well as being possessed … Continue reading
>Ghostly terror out in the dark
> The latest article to be posted on Uncanny UK (www.uncannyuk.com) is by Mark Greener, a science jourmalist who contributed a lot to Paranormal Magazine. Here he points out how easy it is for us to let our imaginations … Continue reading
