Chester Meadows Big Cat (December 2020)
A suspected ‘big cat’ sighting was reported on December 13 [2020] on the Chester Meadows…. Richard Evans said he took the photograph of the mysterious creature as he was heading back into the city...
A suspected ‘big cat’ sighting was reported on December 13 [2020] on the Chester Meadows…. Richard Evans said he took the photograph of the mysterious creature as he was heading back into the city...
The following account was reported in Cheshire Live by Olivia Williams in an article entitled ‘Cheshire woman describes encounter with ‘big cat’ as reported sightings continue’ (02/02/2021) The woman was walking her dog in...
Big Cats / Cryptozoology / Film Review / Review
by Ian · Published February 2, 2020 · Last modified March 2, 2020
Growing up in the countryside of rural Britain in the 1980s, it was almost impossible to get through a single week without over-hearing the mumbled and hushed whispers of nearby adults discussing the emergent...
According to ‘Some West Sussex Superstitions Lingering in 1868’, by Mrs Latham ‘It is likely that the present disposition to believe in ghost stories is in a great measure traditionally from the last generation,...
Earth Lights / Folklore / Other Mysteries
by Ian · Published January 16, 2020 · Last modified January 30, 2020
In his book ‘The Peat-fire Flame’ (1937), Alasdair Alpin MacGregor refers to a strange experience around Loch Rannoch. ‘A phenomenon…..is associated with Loch Rannoch, where a light in the form of a ball sometimes...
English Fairies / English Folktales / Fairies / Folklore / Folktales
by Ian · Published January 16, 2020
According to Sarah Hewett in her ‘Nummits and Crummits’ published in (1900), ‘As a gentleman, late at night, was driving across the moor to Chagford, a village in mid-Devon, he was startled by the...
A common story in the Highlands is recounted here by John Gregorson Campbell in his 1902 book ‘Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands’. ‘In the big church of Beauly (Eaglais mhor...
Aldburgh Hall appears here, not because it is haunted, but because several centuries ago, there were apparently local rumours that it was. The Aldburgh estate was historically the property of Fountains Abbey. Following its...
Folklore / Folktales / Scottish Folktales
by Ian · Published January 6, 2020 · Last modified January 13, 2020
Dating from the13th century, the parish church in Dornoch is a Cathedral in name only and was historically the seat for the Bishop of Caithness until the 17th century. In his book The Peat-fire...
According to Sarah Hewett in her ‘Nummits and Crummits’ published in (1900), ‘AT a hamlet near the parish of South Tawton, a small town on the borders of Dartmoor, there is an interesting story...
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