Country and County: Isle of Man

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Peel Cemetery Ghosts

A native of Peel has been creating a sensation by reporting the appearance of two headless ghosts, which he says he saw at daybreak at Peel cemetery on Friday. August 28th. The “ghosts” have not been seen...

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Spanish Head, Isle of Man

Spanish Head is a promontory rising measuring over 100m above sea level. So in the piece of Ghostlore below, the figure covered some height in his walk. “One of my neighbours was telling me...

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Parish Church of St Lupus, Malew

Back in the 19th century the Parish Church gained a local reputation of being haunted. A piece entitled ‘The Laying of a Ghost’, appearing in the Peel City Guardian, dated 28 December 1901 describes...

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Death Omen

A man who was following a pair of horses for another farmer, was coming home one fine evening in May. and as he was nearing the gate leading to the farm, he intended to...

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A Dead Woman Seen

There was a man once saw a woman in the way before him, a woman he was well acquainted with, and she was looking at him very hard, and her face looked very pale. He hurried...

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A Ghost of a Suicide

A man was once going to Douglas to hear a great preacher. He left Surby soon after twelve o’clock on Saturday night, and as he was just going to cross the river near Ballasalla,...

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The Ghost of a Man on a Steamer

There was a man sailing in a steamer which was lost in the winter with all hands. When this man was sailing in her he had seen a man on the bridge in the night, when there was...

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The Ghost of Pat ny Keylley

‘The people used to talk about some man they called Pat ny Keylley (Pat of the forest). He was an old beggar-man. and after he died is ghost was coming to some house, where the people had...

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Port St Mary Blacksmith

“A blacksmith in Croit-y-Kaaby, Port St. Mary, was asked to put a cross of iron on the grave to prevent the spirit from coming out, but it happened the ghos’ was out, and could not get...