Stubly Old Hall boasts more than one ghost, but it is only one of them that I am going to concern myself with in this post. The ghost of a young lady called Fatima. Fatima makes her presence known throughout the year, but she is known to be particularly industrious on Christmas Eve. In the 12th…
Category: Ghostly Goings On
Seasonal Spectres: At Kempston Manor (Bedfordshire)
Kempston Manor is now offices, but in the nineteenth century it was a family home. One Christmas Eve the owners of the manor had been out to a ball. On their return home, their young son ran out to meet them, only to be knocked down by their carriage. This was not only a very…
Seasonal Spectres: Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII’s second wife. The couple married in a secret ceremony in January 1533. Anne received her crown that June and three months later Henry received a daughter, Elizabeth. In just a matter of a few years though, the unfortunate Anne had a change of quarters forced upon her, and exchanged the…
They’re Here!
My wife passed me one of her magazines the other day. “Read that,” she said pointing at the page. So I did. It was an article about the Poltergeist films. I thought it was very interesting. According to the article there are a lot of people who believe that all three of the films were…
The Hands Resist Him: eBay’s Famous Haunted Painting
My last post was about a supposedly cursed painting and so today I will do something different: a post about a supposedly haunted painting. 🙂 The painting in question turned up in an ebay auction in February 2000. It’s called The Hands Resist Me. It has a slightly unsettling look to it, don’t you think?…
Tears Amongst The Flames: The Crying Boy
Like the picture? It’s the Crying Boy. One version of it anyway, because there do seem to be a few different ones around when you start looking. Any and/or all of them are meant to be bad luck though. Or so a lot of people believe. The original Crying Boy painting was the creation of…
Keeping The Spirit In The Bottle
I was sitting looking at an old glass bottle the other day. You probably know the kind I mean, they usually have a green look to them – the kind that people sometimes dig out of their garden if they live in an old house. Anyway, there I was looking at this old bottle and…
Locked In For Love
I haven’t done a spooky post for a while and so I will rectify that now. The following tale is supposedly true and hails from the North Yorkshire village of Little Smeaton. I am not sure exactly how long ago this all happened, but it is a sad and spooky story. You probably won’t have…
Caught on Security Camera
I’ve just been watching some interesting footage of a supposed ghost that was caught on a security camera. HERE’S THE LINK if you are interested. It is quite strange and I think it might very well be a ghost.
It’s Coronation Street, But Not As We Know It
I watched Most Haunted earlier this evening. I was rather surprised when I saw where Yvette and the team were investigating: Coronation Street. I never knew that the Street had a spook problem, but apparantly they do. Anyway, if you didn’t see the show and want to find out a little more about it JUST…