Th’ Pob Hole, Springhead
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...
Country and County: England
Fairburn Ings Caiman (May 2020)
In May 2020 a sighting was reported that suggested that a Caiman might be living in the Fairburn Ings nature reserve. Caimans are a small relative of the alligator and are usually found in...
The Stadium Of Light
The Stadium Of Light is the 49,000 spectator capacity home ground for the Sunderland Association Football Club. It is built on the site of the old Wearmouth Colliery which opened in 1835 and closed...
Blyborough Fairies
According to ‘The Folklore Of Lincolnshire by Mabel Peacock (December 1900).’ (In) about the year 1874 a certain Mrs, W. was heard to declare that she had often seen them (fairies) at dusk dancing...
Cissbury Ring Tunnel Legend
According to an article in the Worthing Herald dated 27th October 2016, a ‘legend surrounds a tunnel while supposedly led from the (now-demolished) medieval Offington Hall to the Iron Age hill fort at Cissbury...
Brumby Common
According to ‘The Folklore Of Lincolnshire by Mabel Peacock (December 1900).’ At the present time fairies are seldom heard of, but in earlier days it was not unusual to encounter them, though they do...
Butter Charm
According to ‘The Folklore Of Lincolnshire by Mabel Peacock (December 1900).’ The survival in England of the belief in witchcraft is sometimes questioned. Lady Rosalind Northcote appears to doubt whether it survives in Devonshire....
Broadwater Midsummer Skeleton Dance Oak
‘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...
John Whitfield A6 Ghost
It has been suggested that the ghost of John Whitfield, a highwayman hung in chains by Barrock Fell can be heard crying for help. In his book ‘Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland’ (1899), Daniel Scott...
St Aidan’s Crocodile (2020)
According to a Yorkshire Live article by Nick Lavigueur 24 May 2020, he mentions being told that someone ‘has taken a video of what they believe is a crocodile submerged in the water at...
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