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Tag: Ghosts

The Ghost Clown of Flaybrick Cemetery

April 21, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

‘There’s a clown in my graveyard, what am-ah-gonna-do?’ the people of Birkenhead once yelled in the early 1990s. Or at least they would have done if they were particularly big UB40 fans.

Ghosts on Film: Hampton Court Palace

January 18, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

See them walking hand in hand across the bridge at midnight...

The World’s First Ghost Train

August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

The first Ghost Train on record was not a glitzy Disney invention, but a far more humble, home-grown affair.

The Most Haunted House in England: Borley Rectory

January 15, 2021January 14, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 2 Comments

In 1940, psychical investigator and ghost hunter Harry Price produced an account of his stays and studies at Borley Rectory. The book was called ‘The Most Haunted House in England.’ And for a time, the Price was right.

The Smithfield Ghost

March 25, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Not all ghosts are veiled ladies, shrieks in the night or headless horsemen. Some are undead lawyers, tormenting butcher’s stalls in the 17th century.

The Tulip Staircase Ghost

June 5, 2019February 6, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 1 Comment

There had been no one near him when the photograph was taken, the staircase was also inaccessible. But on the print and the negative, was the figure of a person clawing themselves up the staircase.

The Spectre of Newby Church

March 5, 2019March 5, 2019 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 1 Comment

Newby Hall, an 18thcentury house near Ripon in Yorkshire, is both a family tourist attraction and the scene of one of the most captivating (supposed) paranormal images of the 1960s.

Helen Peters Nosworthy: The Medium Behind ‘Ouija’

January 7, 2019February 12, 2019 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 2 Comments

Without thinking, we attribute Ouija’s creation and branding to a huge faceless company, peddling plastic ponies in one hand and sprit communication devices in the other...

Francis Bacon’s Ghost Chicken

December 27, 2018December 27, 2018 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

While spirit snowmen are a thing of horror fiction, it would seem that ghostly chickens have their claws firmly lodged in the niche echelons of British folklore...

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

November 6, 2018February 13, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 2 Comments

The photo of The Brown Lady of Raynham hall is not just one of Britain’s most famous spectral photographs, but world-renowned. Since its development in 1936, the ghostly image of the Brown Lady descending the stairs of the Norfolk country house has been widely circulated irrefutable proof of ghosts’ existence.

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