In 2006 there was a tiger scare in North Yorkshire around Tadcaster. The following article appeared on the BBC News Website [23 June 2006] entitled ‘Police alert over ‘tiger’ reports’ and includes details of a sighting on the B1223, also known as Boggart Lane.
The following article by Chris Slack was published in the Daily Mail on 7 November 2011 and was entitles ‘Lion on the line: Passengers are locked on train for two hours after sighting of big cat… in YORKSHIRE’
On 7 March 2013 Mike Hallowell published the article below in the Shields Gazette entitled ‘Did Barry have close encounter with a UFO?’ In the article the article he gives Gazzette reader Barry Alton’s account of a UFO he saw in 1966.
On 6 January 2010 the Shields Gazzette published the following article entitled ‘Crowds flock to see church spectre’. It concerns the reporting of an apparition in the 19th century outside an unnamed Whitechapel church.
The Peterlee Star printed the following story entitled ‘Boy, 13 ‘beaten up by ghost’ on 9 July 2009, concerning an experience reported by a young Hartlepool boy.
Anniversary Ghosts / Apparitions / Black Dogs / Civil War Hauntings / Haunted Hotels / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings / Poltergiests / Road Ghosts
by Ian · Published April 21, 2013 · Last modified October 13, 2018
Growing up around the Lancashire/Yorkshire border I was never too far away from Huddersfield and the Holme Valley so I was particularly keen to read this book in the Haunted series, on Huddersfield and the local area.
Mike Hallowell recounted the following story of a Leeds ghost in his article entitled ‘The strange case of the cellar dweller’ which was published in the Shields Gazette on Wednesday 10 October 2007.
Apparitions / Haunted Hotels / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings
by Ian · Published April 20, 2013 · Last modified November 26, 2018
Originally a merchants house built in 1741, The Palace had become a registered Inn by 1841, possibly due to the Beerhouse Act of 1830 which enticed private residences to be become public houses.
Apparitions / Green Ladies / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings
by Ian · Published April 19, 2013 · Last modified December 9, 2018
The following article by Mike Ollier entitled ‘Haunted pub’s ‘resident ghosts’ appeared on the BBC Wear website on 26 October 2009. ‘Walk into the Jolly Sailor in Whitburn and you’ll receive a warm welcome from mine host, the ever-smiling Vic Hanson.
Apparitions / Civil War Hauntings / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings
by Ian · Published April 19, 2013 · Last modified December 14, 2018
Formerly known as The Britannia, this old coaching inn dates from the 17th century and has a reputation for being haunted.
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