Mysterious Britain & Ireland

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Articles / Scareships / UFO Sightings / UFOs

Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918

At the turn of the 20th century, visionaries began to dream that the new science of aeronautics would bring universal peace on the Earth by love or fear. Love because as people travelled more they would get to know each other as human beings and no longer as sinister foreigners; fear, because the destructive power of aerial bombardment would render war unthinkable.

Big Cats / Cryptozoology

Kirroughtee Hotel Big Cat Sighting (2013)

Holidaymakers staying at Kirroughtee Hotel outside Newton Stewart had a close encounter with one of Galloway’s best kept secrets last Saturday morning – an elusive big cat.

Les Gill and his partner Linda were looking out of their bedroom window when they both clearly saw the animal in the hotel grounds.

Hauntings

Mothers’ Hospital of the Salvation Army

Mothers’ Hospital of the Salvation Army, opened as the Ivy House Maternity Hospital in 1884 at 280 Mare Street, Hackney. It changed its name to Ivy House Hospital in 1913 when it moved to 153 – 165 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney and eventually took the name Mother’s Hospital in 1922.

Apparitions / Hauntings

Western Infirmary, Glasgow

The Western Infirmary is a teaching hospital in Glasgow. Mark Gould gives the following account there of a haunt like experience in his article entitled ‘Ghosts of sisters past’ which was published in The Guardian on 22 December 2004.

Ancient Sites / Early Christianity / Folklore

St Nidan’s Old Church and The Thigh Stone

St Nidan’s Church in Llanidan is associated with a stone that had strange magical like properties including aiding fertilisation and having the power to move on its own.  Wirt Sykes in his British Goblins (1881) mentions that ‘The old British historian Nennius speaks of a stone, one of the wonders of the Isle

UFO Sightings / UFOs

M2 UFO (2008)

The following article by Dan Bloom appeared on the on the Kent Online website 25 June 2013.

A woman saw a UFO "20 times the size of an aeroplane" while driving home on the M2 – but no-one else spotted it.

Apparitions / Haunted Wedding Venue / Hauntings / Poltergiests

Old Blacksmiths Shop, Gretna Green

The following article by Sue Crawford entitled ‘Ghost hunt at Gretna’s famous Blacksmiths Shop’ was published in the News & Star on 8 August 2013.

Paranormal investigators are to hold a vigil after reports of “terrifying” incidents at Gretna Green’s famous Blacksmiths Shop

Ancient Sites / Early Christianity / Legends

Church of St. Meilig, Llowes and Moll Walbee’s Stone

The medieval church of St Meilig was rebuilt in 1853, though the bottom of the tower may be a remnant of the earlier building. Inside the church is a standing stone with a cross carved into it, which possibly dates from the 6th or 7th century. The stone which is thought to have stood at or near the site of a 6th century monastery founded by St Meilig at Croesfeilig.