Mysterious Britain & Ireland

Country and County: United Kingdom

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Devil / English Fairies / Fairies / Folklore

Barton-upon-Humber Tatter Foal

Barton-upon-Humber, ‘The devil appears to persons there in the shape of a ragged colt called ‘tatter-foal.’ — Thompson, p. 736. [Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning Lincolnshire by Eliza Gutch, Mabel Peacock (1908)]

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English Fairies / Fairies / Folklore

Barnoldby-le-Beck Shag-foal

‘An old lady used to talk of a mysterious phantom like an animal of deep black colour, which appeared before belated travellers. On hearing that we had been attacked at midnight by a large...

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Ancient Sites / Apparitions / Folklore / Hauntings / Wells

Jenny Stannywell

Straddling the Roman Ermine Street near Hibbaldstow was a Romano Britian settlement, the walls of which are said to have still been partially visible in the 1700s.  The construction of Ermine Street is thought...

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Ancient Sites / Wells

The Revolution Well, Leeds

Robert Charles Hope gives the following description of The Revolution Well in The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells (1893). ‘On the near side of the hill in Moortown Lane is a drinking well...

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Apparitions / Hauntings / Road Ghosts

A15 Ruskington

The following article by Matthew Lodge entitled ‘The ‘haunted’ stretch of Lincolnshire road which has left drivers quaking’ appeared in Lincolnshire Live on 22 October 2019. ‘From footsteps heard in the middle of the...

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Apparitions / Folklore / Hauntings / Road Ghosts

Howlet’s Close

Between Prestonmill and Kirkbean—midway between the two villages—there is a small plantation, with, on the other side of the road, a larger wood. The road itself at this particular part forms a hollow. This...

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Apparitions / Black Dogs / Hauntings / Road Ghosts

A710 Derry’s How

‘Between Mainsriddel and Prestonmill there is a sequestered part of the road known as “Derry’s How,” once reputed to be haunted by an evil spirit in the form of a black four-footed beast. [Another]...

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Apparitions / Hauntings / Road Ghosts

Dalbeattie Boulder

‘Until some years ago a huge boulder lay at the roadside on the way from Dalbeattie to Colvend, not far from the cottage known as the “Wood Forester’s.” The story was, that this was...

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Apparitions / Hauntings

Cobden Road, Worthing (1931)

‘One family, who had recently moved into their new home in Worthing’s Cobden Road in 1931, were terrified by figures of monks, slamming doors and heavy footsteps. Evidence seemed to suggest that the house...

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Hauntings / Poltergiests

Sea Road, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear

In 2004 the Sunderland Echo posted the following story concerning haunt like events taking place at a Greggs bakery in Fulwell. The article published on 29 June was entitled ‘The Greggs-orcist’. ‘SPOOKED staff have...