Mysterious Britain & Ireland is a resource and community website dedicated to mysterious places, legends and folklore of the British and Irish Isles.
Ghost Finder London - App
Looking for the spookier side to London? Then this is the must-have app for you...
London has a rich haunted heritage, and from well-known ghosts to some of the more obscure, this app features over 300 haunted locations around the city, the map uses your phone's GPS to bring the spooks to you! Read More »
Strange Project Albion
Project Albion is part of one of ASSAP’s longest running and most successful research endeavours and it has been likened to a Domesday book of the paranormal. It is an attempt to record the full spectrum of anomalies, past and present, within their geographical, as well as historical, context. Read More »
BUFORA 50th Anniversary Conference 2012
The British UFO Research Association presents: BUFORA 50th Anniversary Conference 2012 at the Holiday Inn, Kings Cross Road, London WC1X 9HX. Read More »
ASSAP the Professional Body
At its 30th anniversary Seriously Strange conference on 10 September 2011 ASSAP (Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena) announced it had been registered with the government as a professional body for paranormal investigators. Read More »
'Ghost Stories' An Interview With Andy Nyman
Following sell-out seasons at the Lyric Hammersmith and Liverpool Playhouse, the terrifying Ghost Stories is opening in the West End at the Duke of York’s Theatre on 25 June 2010. Read More »
Northern Ireland Paranormal Research Association (NIPRA)
NIPRA was founded in 1991 by Warren Coates. The group was originally started by those with an interest in the Paranormal, but it soon became the most established and credible paranormal research group in Northern Ireland. Read More »
Whittlesey Straw Man
Some sources say this festival takes place on the Monday after twelfth night (Plough Monday), the tuesday following Plough Monday or the Saturday. Either way, a man is dressed from head to foot in straw bundles and dances around the town of Whittlesey, going from house to house looking for gifts of food, money and beer. Read More »
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Ty Mawr hut group (a.k.a. Cytau'r Gwyddelod, or Irish Huts)
These Iron Age remains of circular buildings can be found on Holy Island, near South Stack on Anglesey. The site consists of ten large circular stone rings (the remains of Iron Age huts) on the hillside with nine smaller rectangular structures (probably workshops for metal working) scattered among them, covering an area of up to twenty acres. Read More »
Ffynnon Barruc (St Barruc's Well)
St Barruc's Well is today capped and the once healing waters were diverted to make way for a Butlins holiday camp in 1965. Luckily though descriptions of the well survive. Wirt Sykes in British Goblins (1881) tells us that ‘on Barry Island, near Cardiff, is the famous well of St. Read More »
Top 10 Haunted Castles UK and Ireland
There are hundreds of stunning castles all over the UK and Ireland – many of which are haunted by numerous ghosts and spirits. Take a ride with us as we explore ten of the UK and Ireland’s most haunted castles.
Wardour Castle, Wiltshire Read More »
Ghost Of Elizabeth Gething
The following tale concerning a haunting in Ystradgynlais was printed in British Goblins (1881) by Wirt Sykes. 'In the parish of Ystradgynlais, in Breconshire, Thomas Llewellyn, an innkeeper's son, was often troubled by the spirit of a well-dressed woman, who used to stand before him in narrow lanes, as if to bar his passage, but he always got by her, though in great alarm. Read More »
Ffynnon Elian (St. Elian's Well)
St Elian’s Well, like most Holy Well’s was associated with having healing properties until around 1723 when it developed a reputation for being a cursing well. Thought to have sprang forth to quench the thirst of St Elian in the 6th century, the well was a source of pilgrimage for many centuries. Read More »
Strange Mitcham by James Clark
Strange Mitcham by James Clark was first published as a booklet in 2002 as part of ASSAP's (Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena) Project Albion. It was updated and republished in 2011 giving James the opportunity to add a few more articles and further information. Read More »
Caer-y-Twr
Caer-y-Twr is the remains of an Iron Age hill fort on the summit of Holyhead mountain (Mynydd Twr) 220 metres in height. Due to its position, it did not need much additional defence, but it had a stone rampart on the northern and eastern sides enclosing an area of roughly seven hectares. The site of the hill fort now contains mostly rubble, but the walls can still be identified. Read More »
Sir David Llwyd of Yspythi Ystwyth
The village of Ysbyty Ystwyth is thought to have been the property of the Knights Hospitallier ( Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem) and also, maybe the home of one of Wales infamous magicians. Read More »
Featured Sites
Callanais (Callanish) Stone Circle
Situated near the village of Calanais, Isle of Lewis on a ridge of land above Loch Roag, Callanais is one of the more remote stone circles in the British Isles. The circle consists of a central stone just under five metres in height, surrounded by a circle of thirteen stones. Read More »
Culloden Battlefield
The moor - site of the last battle on British soil -has its share of ghostly traditions, perhaps befitting for the scene of so much bloodshed and slaughter. The Battle of Culloden - April 16th 1746 - marked the fall of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart monarchy to the throne. Read More »
