Lighthouse, Poole
The Lighthouse arts centre in Poole which opened in April 1978 has a reputation of being haunted. In a Bournemouth Daily Echo article by Nick Findley entitled ‘The ghostly encounters staff have had at...
Category: Hauntings
Phantom Piper of Corsock
“Many years ago a drover, while making his way north and crossing that wild and thinly populated district which lies between the head of the parish of Parton and the Moor of Corsock had...
Glenlee Park
In his book ‘Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland (1911)’, J Maxwell Wood extracted the following details from the Winter 1900 edition of the Gallovidian, concerning haunt like experiences at...
Kirkdale Bridge
A white lady was said to haunt Kirkdale Bridge. The Bridge dates from around 1787 and was designed by Robert Adam. The bridge was not built to the grandeur of his original plan, which...
A75 Creetown to Gatehouse
‘Between Kirkdale House and Cassencarry, on the beautiful sea-girt road leading from Creetown to Gatehouse, there stood many years ago a little cottage in a sequestered situation among the woods, where a young girl...
Bokor Hill Station
Bokor Hill Station is a very eerie place. It is situated at the top of a jungle-clad mountain. It is permanently shrouded in a dense, impenetrable mist which gives the whole place a hopeless,...
Frock Coated Small Figure
According to ‘Some West Sussex Superstitions Lingering in 1868’ by Mrs Latham, ‘A ghost, “not three feet in height, and dressed in a round frock and brown gaiters,” has been seen repeatedly by the...
Major Peter Labilliere, Box Hill
‘According to local folklore, an eccentric sword-wielding officer, Major Peter Labelliere, roams the summit by his grave, where he was buried upside down, as instructed in his will, in 1800.’ [Surrey Life, ‘Surrey’s most...
A21 – Robertsbridge
According to an article about the A21 by Sophie Madge in Kent Live on 31 October 2017, ‘drivers since the 1970s have claimed to have seen a ghost cycling in the Robertsbridge area. This...
Ghost In A Coffin
The following account was published in “The peat-fire flame : folk-tales and traditions of the Highlands & Islands” by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1937). ‘Connected with Breadalbain is the folk-tale of a ghost that attempted...
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