Burials & Beyond

Tag: Ghosts

  • The Hellfire Caves: Sex, Drugs and Darkness

    The Hellfire Caves: Sex, Drugs and Darkness

    The Hellfire Caves of Buckinghamshire are a familiar haunt for many modern ghost hunters and have a sinister history to match.

  • The Ghost Clown of Flaybrick Cemetery

    The Ghost Clown of Flaybrick Cemetery

    ‘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…

  • Ghosts on Film: Hampton Court Palace

    Ghosts on Film: Hampton Court Palace

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

  • The World’s First Ghost Train

    The World’s First Ghost Train

    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

    The Most Haunted House in England: Borley Rectory

    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…

  • The Smithfield Ghost

    The Smithfield Ghost

    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

    The Tulip Staircase Ghost

    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 Spectre of Newby Church

    The Spectre of Newby Church

    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)…

  • Helen Peters Nosworthy: The Medium Behind ‘Ouija’

    Helen Peters Nosworthy: The Medium Behind ‘Ouija’

    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…

  • Francis Bacon’s Ghost Chicken

    Francis Bacon’s Ghost Chicken

    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…

  • The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

    The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

    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…

  • A Short History of British Screaming Skulls

    A Short History of British Screaming Skulls

    While sounding like a high-school punk band, screaming skulls are a not-uncommon element woven through the rich British tapestry of haunted body parts.

  • St Botolph’s, Skidbrooke

    St Botolph’s, Skidbrooke

    When beginning a new project or blog, its all too easy to overthink. Will my content be too niche? Will readers find me boring? So,…