Measuring roughly 12 acres in size St Michael’s or Fort Island is connected to the mainland at the Langness Peninsula by a causeway. There are two ruined structures present, the 12th century St Michael’s...
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...
Ancient Sites / Apparitions / Cryptozoology / Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings / Legends / Occult
by Ian · Published March 22, 2021 · Last modified April 22, 2021
The ‘International Fortean Film Festival’ is run by filmmakers and people with a passion for all things weird and paranormal, for filmmakers and people with a passion for all things weird and paranormal… ABOUT...
‘In the family of Kirkpatrick of Closeburn the tradition was, that when a death was about to take place in the family a swan invariably made its appearance on the loch that surrounded the...
St Margaret’s Church in Lowestoft dates from the late 14th century and according to some, associated with a few apparitions. An East Anglian Daily Times article entitled ‘Weird Suffolk: Have you spotted ghosts in...
In Halton Holegate, Lincolnshire, it is said that whenever someone in the village is about to die, a mysterious light will appear above their home. The origins of this legend stretch back to the...
John Oliver built his tomb, known as the ‘Miller’s Tomb’, at Highdown Hill while he was still alive. It is said that he wanted to be buried in it upside down so as to...
Folklore / Hauntings / Occult / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published May 30, 2020 · Last modified June 30, 2020
A pit in a farmer’s field at Springhead called ‘Th’ Pob Hole’ was thought to be a dark place where a local witch named Nan o’ Pob’s committed suicide. Her ghost is said to...
‘There stood, and still may stand, upon the downs, close to Broadwater, an old oak-tree, that I used, in days gone by, to gaze at with an uncomfortable and suspicious look from having heard...
Apparitions / Folklore / Hauntings / Jacobite Ghosts
by Ian · Published February 19, 2020 · Last modified February 19, 2021
At the battle of Killiecrankie on 27th July 1689 the Jacobites of ‘Bonny Dundee’ (John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee (who died in the battle), defeated the government’s army. Among the thousands that...
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