Mysterious Britain & Ireland

Category: Apparitions

Apparitions / Hauntings

Hartavagh Bay Sheiling

In ‘Tales From Old Barra, Told by the Coddy’ (1960) (John MacPherson, Northbay, Barra, 1876 · 1955) a haunted ruined sheiling at Hartavagh Bay is mentioned. Here some fishermen would spent the night whilst out on fishing trips.

Apparitions / English Folktales / Folklore / Folktales / Hauntings

The Smuggler’s Leap

"Near this hamlet (Acol) is a long-disused chalk pit…known by the name of ‘The Smuggler’s Leap.’ The tradition of the parish runs that a riding officer from Sandwich, called Anthony Gill, lost his life here…while in pursuit of a smuggler. A fog coming on, both parties went over the precipice…The spot has, of course, been haunted ever since". [Lewis’s History of Thanet, by the Rev.

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The Horror of Gyb Farm edited by Richard Holland

Within this book, The Horror of Gyb Farm, Richard Holland has collated and edited the works of a pioneering and yet relatively unknown paranormal researcher, Frederick George Lee (born 1832-1902). Between 1875 and 1894 F.G.

Apparitions / Hauntings

Bryn Terrace, Llanelli

According to ‘Phantoms Legends, Customs and Superstitions Of The Sea’ (1972) by Raymond Lamont Brown; ‘In 1955 Jack Rees was a 26-year-old steel erector employed at Carmarthen Bay Power Station. At the time of his brush with this phantom he was living at a house in Bryn Terrace, Llanelly with his 23-year-old wife and son of seven.

Anniversary Ghosts / Apparitions / Folklore / Hauntings

Ilmington Hunter

In ‘The Folklore Of Warwickshire’ (1976) Roy Palmer mentions the following tale of an Ilmington man, who, ‘with a pack of harriers became obsessed with hunting to the exclusion of everything else, including attendance at church. One night he went out to his hounds when they were howling, but they did not recognise him, and tore him to pieces.

Apparitions / Hauntings

Lawford Hall, Little Lawford

Lawford Hall near Long Lawford no longer exists and on the site of this building can now be found Hall Farm. Lawford Hall had a reputation of being haunted and the following account of this ghost appeared in ‘The Folklore Of Warwickshire’ (1976) by Roy Palmer. ‘The Boughton family lived at Lawford Hall, which stood not far from the Avon at Little Lawford, near Rugby.

Apparitions / Hauntings

A428 Ghost

According to ‘The Folklore Of Warwickshire’ (1976) by Roy Palmer, ‘Drivers on the Coventry-Rugby road have been terrified at the approach of a lorry on the wrong side of the road. At the last spit-second, when a head-on collision seems inevitable, the lorry proves to be a phantom, and vanishes.’ 

I am unsure where exactly on the A428 the phantom lorry has been seen.

Apparitions / Folklore / Hauntings

La Planchada of Mexico City’s Hospital Juarez

Beginning in the 1930s, many doctors at Mexico City’s Hospital Juarez began reporting a mysterious improvement in the condition of some of their patients. When asked about these miraculous recoveries the patients all claimed to have been visited in the night by a nurse in an immaculately ironed but quite old fashioned uniform.

Apparitions / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings / Legends

The Three Crutches, Strood

One night in the 13th century a Templar Knight named Sir Richard or Reginald Braybrooke was murdered whilst travelling (probably) to Temple Manor after visiting Lord Cobham. He was shot through the heart by and arrow and his body was not discovered until the following day at a location where three roads met. The murderer was never caught or brought to justice.