Apparitions / Fairies / Folklore / Hauntings / Poltergiests / WWII Hauntings
by Ian · Published August 28, 2009 · Last modified November 17, 2018
Castle Wildenstein (Schloss Wildenstein) dates from the around the 16th century and has acquired a reputation for being haunted. According to John and Anne Spencer in The ‘Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits’, on 1st March 1953, Baroness von Lobenstein reported seeing an apparition of a young boy in a sailor suit stood in the kitchen.
St Leonard’s Church in Walton-le-Dale was according to folklore the location that Edward Kelly and Dr John Dee chose to famously summon a spirit, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Earth Lights / Folklore / Hauntings / Other Mysteries
by Ian · Published August 27, 2009 · Last modified December 9, 2018
Dylife was a small lead mining community which was totally abandoned when the mine closed at the end of the 1800’s.
In her book ‘Travels In West Africa’, the British explorer Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) describes an encounter she had in 1895 on Lake Ncovi with a glowing ball of light. She had brought her canoe to the side of the lake so she could wash, or bathe and her account is as follows.
Apparitions / Ghost Ships / Hauntings
by Ian · Published August 24, 2009 · Last modified November 17, 2018
The Griffin, built in 1679 was one of the first ships to sail on the Great Lakes and was used by the French Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle ( 22 November 1643 – 19 March 1687), to explore that part of Northern America.
Apparitions / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings / Occult / Occult Traditions / Voodoo
by Ian · Published August 20, 2009 · Last modified November 18, 2018
Rose Hall Great House is possibly the most famous plantation house in Jamaica and is said to be haunted by a villainous murderess and her victims. In 1746 Henry Fanning bought the 290 acre True Friendship sugar plantation and shortly thereafter on 16th July he married the Irish, Rosa Kelly. Within a year Fanning died leaving Rosa the plantation.
Ancient Sites / Early Christianity / Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Manx Fairies / Manx Folktales
by Daniel Parkinson · Published August 18, 2009 · Last modified December 11, 2018
St Trinian’s church is the ruined shell of a 14th Century building standing at the foot of Mount Greeba on the Isle of Man. The chapel was the haunt of a Buggane: a fearsome creature of Manx folklore that appears in a number of folktales from the island.
English Folktales / Folklore / Folktales / Hauntings / Occult / Occult Biographies / Occult Traditions / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published August 15, 2009 · Last modified December 31, 2018
In St John’s graveyard, Burslem, can be found the last resting place of Molly Leigh, a local woman accused of being a witch but dying before she could be brought to trial. Her body is the only one positioned North to South, putting it at a right angle to every other grave in the cemetery. The story of Molly Leigh is a mixture of fact and folklore that has grown over the years.
The following article entitled ‘Did something crash in Sylvan Lake on Monday? Authorities in Forest Lake say they don’t know’ appeared on the Forest Lake Times website on Tuesday 28 Jult 2009. It was written by staff writer Jennifer Larson.
Though referred to as a castle, Margam is actually a large Grade I listed Victorian mansion built for Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot for his family between 1830 and 1840. The house passed from the Talbot family when it was sold to Sir David Evans Bevan of the Vale of Neath Brewery, in 1941.
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