America's haunted jail

America’s haunted jail

By Matt Hicks With its cavernous corridors, damp empty cells and peeling walls, it’s unsurprising that this Philadelphia former prison is a popular destination for filmmakers and tourists alike. Completed in 1836, the radial style and solitary confinement policy of Eastern State Penitentiary (E.S.P.) were a revolution in how Western...
THE MOON: The Biggest Mystery?

THE MOON: The Biggest Mystery?

By Gavin Slack If you asked someone to tell you about the moon, they would almost certainly reply “there’s nothing to tell, it’s just a lifeless, boring rock that orbits the Earth”. This is one of the biggest commonest mis-conceptions. The moon is far from being a “lifeless, boring rock”,...
Most Haunted Hotel in the World?

Most Haunted Hotel in the World?

The Myrtles Plantation was built in 1794 by General David Bradford and remains today an excellent example of antebellum architecture along the Mississippi River. The residents and the owners of the house, who have changed several times over the years, recall the many ghostly tales and stories that have been...
The Bell Witch

The Bell Witch

By Judyth Piazza For several years her ghost pinched, slapped, scolded and otherwise tormented a prominent Tennessee family in one of America’s best-known poltergeist cases. Adams, Tennessee, in 1817, was the site of one of the most well-known hauntings in American history. The haunting was so well known that it...
A Slip in Time

A Slip in Time

By Martin Jeffrey Ghosts are a multi-faceted phenomenon that deserves to be classified as a range of different events. Many ghost sightings are readily explained as individuals who appear out of their normal location or time; often the ghost also seems to change the surroundings of the witness, giving the...
The Haunting of Robin Hood's Grave

The Haunting of Robin Hood’s Grave

By Martin Jeffrey Nobody has researched and promoted the fact that Robin Hood was a Yorkshireman and even buried in West Yorkshire, as much as Barbara Green. For the last twenty five years she has tirelessly fought the authorities to obtain recognition of Robin Hood’s grave. Kindly, Barbara has provided...
The Ghosts of Heathrow Airport

The Ghosts of Heathrow Airport

Heathrow International Airport in England is indeed a very busy place. Nowhere in the world is there more hustle and bustle than at this huge airport. It is, therefore, very interesting that such a busy place is the home of several hauntings and, more importantly, so haunted that folks actually...
Scotland's Most Haunted Road

Scotland’s Most Haunted Road

Hundreds of weird sightings and unexplained accidents have been reported in the area over the past fifty years. The 15 mile stretch of the A75 from Annan in Dumfriesshire to Gretna Green is claimed to be the most haunted road in Scotland and the Scottish Office plans to improve it...
Ghosts of Greyfriar's Kirkyard

Ghosts of Greyfriar’s Kirkyard

In November 1999, Colin Grant, a minister of a spiritualist church and owner of the Clairvoyant shop in St Mary’s Street, Edinburgh stood in the Greyfriars Kirkyard and performed an exorcism. He stood in front of the local press with a candle, a cross to ward off evil spirits, holding...
A Guide to Ghost Hunting

A Guide to Ghost Hunting

There is a growing interest in the paranormal, influenced largely by programmes such as “Most Haunted”. Because of this, I thought it a good idea to offer some advice and information pertaining to what you could expect to experience at a haunting. The first point to take into consideration is...
A Dartmoor Ghost

A Dartmoor Ghost

RWF Poole, country correspondent to the Daily Telegraph once told this story about his first season as a master of the Dartmoor Foxhounds, many years ago. On Christmas Eve, the hunt met at a pub on the edge of the moor. The landlord sniffed the air and said snow was...
The Haunted Inn of Welwyn Garden City

The Haunted Inn of Welwyn Garden City

By Martin Jeffrey In Britain a huge amount of ghost sightings take place in one of our favourite places – the local pub. For years people have read about Haunted Inns and Hotels up and down the country. Bruce Piggott, an amateur historian from Welwyn Garden City has uncovered something...
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My life as a Ghost Catalyst

Submitted by Rolande Franke Let me open by saying that I am an entirely rational and normal person but abnormal things happen to me and that the long and meandering account herein is true. Certain parts my wife will gladly swear to as they include her in their compass. At present I am working as...

Experiences from an early age

Witness Recollection I’ve just been reading the stories on your website and wanted to tell you mine, hoping anyone can give me any ideas on what I’m experiencing. Ever since I was 3 I have had sightings and happenings of ghosts. When I was 3 I was upstairs and a gorilla’s hand came from under...

Living with Ghosts

Submitted by Denise Wilson To be honest, most of my life I’ve had the luck…or bad luck, depending on how you view it, of being surrounded by paranormal activity. Only in the last few years have I started to really study the paranormal in depth, and I find that the more I learn, the more...

Finsbury Park Flat

Witness Recollection In 1988 my then girlfriend and I went to live at her aunt’s house, her aunt had moved out with her boyfriend and as we were then living with my mother and our young baby of 2 months old this seemed like a sensible move for us to make. The house was a...

Experiences in my Haunted Flat

Witness Recollection Seven years ago, my partner and I moved into a fairly modern housing association property. When we moved in, we investigated the loft to assess the space for Christmas dec’ storage etc as the flat itself was very small. We found lots of odd nicnacs in the loft; things that you wouldn’t really...

Night Terror

Witness Recollection “My brother has quite a small room, and he doesn’t like to sleep in there because it gets very hot. He cannot open the windows because they broke a little while ago. Anyway he decided to sleep on the couch downstairs. He doesnt mind doing this, because then this way, he gets to...
The Old Barley Mow investigation

The Old Barley Mow investigation

We undertook an investigation of this old pub on Osmaston Road, Derby along with the Derwent Paranormal Investigators. DPI have yet to receive confirmation, but the Old Barley Mow was built around the 1850′s, possibly as two houses on the end of two strips of terraces. Again further research should confirm if the building was...

Cottage Ghosts

Witness Recollection Just over a year ago i moved into a cottage which is part of a private royal estate. The cottage is dated back so far to two hundred years, although it is believed to be older. My neighbour experienced spirits in her house just over two years ago, to the extent that the...

Our Haunted Home

Witness Recollection I have always been able to see and sense the er unusual. My family have got used to it over the years and fortunately never made a huge fuss about it or tried to tell me I hadn’t seen things. I have lived in many old houses, our farmhouse was around 16th Century...

The Lady in the Chair

Witness Recollection Because of trouble at home (an alcoholic parent) I often stayed overnight with my Grandmother. She always rented a small house for months or sometimes several years and then moved to another. My Dad and I became experts at packing her things over the years. Our theory was that she just got tired...

The ghost that shouted Mum!

Witness Recollection My family and I have lived in our Victorian house for almost 3 years, a plaque at the very top of the house indicates that it was built well over 100 years ago. Since moving in, my mother and I have experienced many unsettling incidents. My own bedroom (in the attic) seems to...

The Man in the Pajamas

Witness Recollection We first moved to our house in 1990 and from day one things started to happen, we would return home and the heating would be turned off, the tv and video would be unplugged and on the odd occasion we found tv on in or bedroom when we know for certain that it...