Apparitions / Black Dogs / English Folktales / Folklore / Folktales / Hauntings
by Ian · Published July 9, 2025
‘A canine apparition named ‘Hairy Jack’ was to be met with in the parish of Grayingham some years ago, and phantoms of the same breed are said to prowl about lonely plantations, by-ways, and...
‘According to a writer in the Stamford Mercury, June 7th, 1889, fairies were once to be met with in “Fairies’ Holt,” a field between Bag-Enderby and Somersby,” where the ploughmen in the old days...
The Cross Keys Hotel in Chatteris is thought to be a 16th or 17th century coaching inn and nearly 30 years was considered the most haunted pub in East Anglia. The following article entitled...
On 13th July 2023 The Scottish Sun published the following story by Paige Beresford entitled ‘Roaming Free, Scots village on high alert after locals spot big cat prowling field‘ Residents have been left spooked...
BUT at last one day Grania spoke to Diarmuid, and it is what she said, that it was a shame on them, with all the people and the household they had, and all their...
The 14th century All Saints’ Church, has a peculiar pieced of local folklore or tradition attached to it. ‘At All Saints church in Swanton Morley, it’s said that Satan can be summoned if you...
The A47 Acle Straight is a nine mile stretch of road which was opened in 1831 over marshland, which appears to have a reputation of being haunted. The following article by Stacia Briggs and...
The following article by Stacia Briggs and Siofra Connor entitled ‘Have you seen a whistling ghost off the Acle Straight?’, was published in the Eastern Daily Express (26 May 2022) and describes a strange...
‘About a league below Quimperle is the ferry of Carnoet. Some portions of the old chateau of Carnoet still remain, and tradition says that this building was one of the many residences of the...
The year is 1457. ‘In the month of November, in the Ile of Portland not farre from the towne of Weimouth, was seene a cocke coming out of the sea, hauing a great crest...
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