Mark Killiner mentioned the potential haunting of Friday Hill House in an article dated 29 August 2005 which appeared in the East London and West Essex Guardian Series, ‘Five years ago [2000] the Guardian reported on former local woman Mavis Fisher’s efforts to find out more about the ghostly
Anniversary Ghosts / Apparitions / Black Dogs / Book Review / Ghost Stories / Haunted Hotels / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings / Photographed Ghosts / Poltergiests / Review
by Ian · Published July 4, 2012 · Last modified October 14, 2018
Peter Underwood, a world renowned expert on the paranormal, has published a new book focussing on Irish Ghosts. I had great hopes for this book having owned a copy of his 1973 book Gazetteer of Scottish & Irish Ghosts for a number of years, and I’m pleased to say I’ve not being disappointed.
Devil / Folklore / Folktales / Legends / Welsh Folktales
by Ian · Published July 1, 2012 · Last modified December 20, 2018
The following tale is in its main features still current in Cynwyd, a village about two miles from Corwen. The first reference to the story that I am acquainted with appeared in an essay sent in to a local Eisteddfod in 1863. The story is thus related in this essay:—
Devil / Folklore / Folktales / Legends / Welsh Folktales
by Ian · Published July 1, 2012 · Last modified December 20, 2018
It was formerly a general custom in Wales for young lads and lasses to meet and spend a pleasant evening together in various farmhouses. Many kinds of amusements, such as dancing, singing, and card playing, were resorted to, while away the time. The Rev.
Buried Treasure / Devil / Legends
by Ian · Published June 28, 2012 · Last modified December 25, 2018
There are two stories associated with this conical hill just off the road between Stratford and Alcester known as the Devil’s Bag of Nuts and Alcock’s Arbour. One 21 September which is the known as the Devil’s Nutting Day, Satan was collecting nuts when he was surprised by the Virgin Mary.
Ancient Sites / Black Dogs / Devil / Hauntings / Legends / Occult
by Ian · Published June 28, 2012 · Last modified December 26, 2018
An Iron Age hill fort once stood upon Meon Hill and it has been suggested that man has lived there from the Stone Age, but it a legend concerning the formation of the hill that has attracted my attention.
I am never quite sure what to make of the hateful anti-Semitic folk tales found throughout Europe and to whether to brush them aside, pretending they do not exist, or post them in a hope that people can learn from the mistakes of the past.
Devil / Folklore / Folktales / Welsh Folktales
by Ian · Published June 26, 2012 · Last modified December 20, 2018
In his ‘Welsh-folklore’ (1887) Elias Owen tells the following tale related to him by Rev. W. E. Jones, rector of Bylchau, near Denbigh:—
Devil / Folklore / Folktales / Welsh Folktales
by Ian · Published June 22, 2012 · Last modified December 20, 2018
“The Rev. Mr. Thomas Baddy, who lived in Denbigh Town, and was a Dissenting Minister in that place, went into his study one night, and while he was reading or writing, he heard some one behind him laughing and grinning at him, which made him stop a little—as well indeed it might.
St David’s or Leicester’s Church in Denbigh dates from 1578 – 1579. Intended to be a new Cathedral Church for the St Asaph dioceses it is thought to have been the largest church built in the Elizabethan Age, or would have been if it ad been completed.
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