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Category Archives: haunted Britain
Ghost dog in Wepre Park, Flintshire, North Wales
Recently I hooked up again on Facebook with an old friend, Alison Truesdale. Alsion happened to refer to a ‘ghost dog’ she’d seen as a child so naturally I pounced on this and asked for more details. It was not … Continue reading
Ghost photographed in Northop, Flintshire
It’s nice to have a news story to highlight from my home patch of North-East Wales. The story comes from ‘SepiaQuill’, the blogsite of a team of enthusiasts working to save and archive community photographs. The photo was taken at … Continue reading
Noel Coward’s ghost haunts Julian Clary’s house
Comedian Julian Clary claims his house is haunted. It’s haunted, he says, by none other than the spirit of playwright and fellow gay icon Noel Coward. Clary’s beautiful 16th century Kent mansion is, in fact, the former home of ‘The … Continue reading
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Tagged Kent, Kent ghosts
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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 perfect hotels for a spooky break
Wesley McDermott of the website Haunted Hotels has kindly created for Uncanny UK a list of the top 10 best places to stay over Hallowe’en. His roster of the top 10 haunted hotels in England include Georgian townhouses, 16th century … 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
Uncanny Book Club and Pic
Here is J Wentworth Day’s ‘Here Are Ghosts and Witches’, the 1954 first edition. I’ve always liked the sinister cover art by Michael Ayrton. Ayrton also provides some distinctive interior illustrations and, judging by his Wikipedia entry, seems to have … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Club, East Anglia folklore, East Anglia ghosts, folklore Fens, J Wentworth Day, Uncanny Book Club, Uncanny pic
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Uncanny Book Club: Ghost-lore goes art nouveau
I am a book nut. I keep buying the bloody things. I can’t help it. I just can’t see me ever really buying into the whole Kindle-type pretend book thing. I love the feel of a book, the design, the … Continue reading
>Young ghosts
>Fortean Times reader recounts sighting of ghostly Edwardian schoolchildren. Somewhere in Britain but unfortunately doesn’t state where. Read the account at http://is.gd/ksDFHC
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>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
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