Baba Yaga
Somewhere, I cannot tell you exactly where, but certainly in vast Russia, there lived a peasant with his wife and they had twins—son and daughter. One day the wife died and the husband mourned over her...
View ArticleMer-Chicken of Portland (1457)
The year is 1457. ‘In the month of November, in the Ile of Portland not farre from the towne of Weimouth, was seene a cocke coming out of the sea, hauing a great crest upon his head, and a great red...
View ArticleFerry of Carnoët
‘About a league below Quimperle is the ferry of Carnoet. Some portions of the old chateau of Carnoet still remain, and tradition says that this building was one of the many residences of the infamous...
View ArticleBreydon Water
The following article by Stacia Briggs and Siofra Connor entitled ‘Have you seen a whistling ghost off the Acle Straight?’, was published in the Eastern Daily Express (26 May 2022) and describes a...
View ArticleA47 Acle Straight
The A47 Acle Straight is a nine mile stretch of road which was opened in 1831 over marshland, which appears to have a reputation of being haunted. The following article by Stacia Briggs and Siofra...
View ArticleAll Saint’s Parish Church, Swanton Morley
The 14th century All Saints’ Church, has a peculiar pieced of local folklore or tradition attached to it. ‘At All Saints church in Swanton Morley, it’s said that Satan can be summoned if you run round...
View ArticleTea With The Reaper
Written and directed by Ryan Simons and produced by Jamie Cymbal and Morgan Wilson, ‘Tea With The Reaper’ is a phantasmic rip-roaring mockumentary about the capers and mishaps of a pair of hapless...
View ArticleThe Boar of Beinn Gulbain (Benbulbin)
BUT at last one day Grania spoke to Diarmuid, and it is what she said, that it was a shame on them, with all the people and the household they had, and all their riches, the two best men in Ireland...
View ArticleBrydekirk Big Cat (2023)
On 13th July 2023 The Scottish Sun published the following story by Paige Beresford entitled ‘Roaming Free, Scots village on high alert after locals spot big cat prowling field‘ Residents have been...
View ArticleThe Cross Keys Hotel, Chatteris
The Cross Keys Hotel in Chatteris is thought to be a 16th or 17th century coaching inn and nearly 30 years was considered the most haunted pub in East Anglia. The following article entitled ‘The...
View ArticleFairies Holt
‘According to a writer in the Stamford Mercury, June 7th, 1889, fairies were once to be met with in “Fairies’ Holt,” a field between Bag-Enderby and Somersby,” where the ploughmen in the old days used...
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