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Post by Swampirella on Nov 22, 2020 1:51:33 GMT
As the title indicates, this features paranormal experiences rather than ghostly ones, but I highly recommend it if you can get a hold of a copy (pub. 1990)
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Post by dem bones on Nov 22, 2020 13:12:38 GMT
Pamela Armstrong - Dark Tales of Old Newcastle (Bridge Studios, 1990) The Shadow of the Scaffold Restless Natives Plague and Disaster The SupernaturalBlurb: Drawing on her experience as a tour-guide, Pamela Armstrong takes a light-hearted look at some of the grimmer aspects of old Newcastle - plagues and disasters, ghosts and witch-hunts, prisons and executions, body-snatchers and street riots.
Many of the stories are previously unpublished and have been gleaned from long research among contemporary newspapers and broadsheets, letters and archives. The book is illustrated by the author.
All royalties donated to the MacMillan Fund for Cancer ReliefThe Phantom of the Disco pub had called it a day when Pamela Armstrong came to researching this one, but we none of us need be deterred; Dark Tales of Old Newcastle is worthy a place in anyone's ghost library, and the combined efforts of the Half-hanged MacDonald, the Quayside 'Silky', the Sallyport cavalier, the girl in the blue muslin dress, Rent-a-corpse Ltd., the killer sheep of Sandhill Market and the dive-bombing donkey of Castle Garth ensure an absence of Go-Go ghost is not so keenly felt as might otherwise have been the case. In common with the Jennie Lee Cobban Broken Barnet classic, any royalties were donated to a cancer charity.
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Post by samdawson on Nov 22, 2020 18:04:13 GMT
postimg.cc/PCwx3kZ9Mysteries of Surrey by A.M. Green. No back cover blurb but instead a picture of the church carving said to have inspired Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat character Published 1972. I loved this almost pamphlet-like book in my pre-teen years. It's a collection of lost villages, tunnels, ghosts, oddities and the like. From the inside front cover: 'Andrew M. Green is a member of the Surrey Archaeological Society ... He is also a member of the Ghost Club ... and some ten years ago investigated "The Poltergiest (sic) Girl of Battersea" for the News Chronicle. He lectures on Psychical Research and was co-founder of the National Federation of Psychical Research Societies in 1952.'
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Post by dem bones on Nov 26, 2020 10:07:10 GMT
Rosemary Anne Lauder & Michael Williams - Strange Stories From Devon (Bossiney, 1982) Cover photo: David Golby. Back cover, St. Michaels, Brentnor, by Ray Bishop About the Authors — and the Book
Strange Shapes — and Places Strange Characters Salcombe Mystery Lynmouth — a North Devon Disaster A Kindred Spirit The Man They Couldn't Hang Yeo Vale: A Mysterious Devon House The Great Trick Some Strange Devon Happenings
AcknowledgementsBlurb: Strange shapes and places — strange characters — the man they couldn't hang, and a Salcombe mystery, the Lynmouth Disaster and a mysterious house are some of the strange stories from Devon. Did King Arthur visit North Devon? Was there really a ghost dog? Who was the bigger rogue — Carew or Froude? Rosemary Anne Lauder and Michael Williams have combined to produce a book that poses many intriguing questions.Mysteries of Surrey by A.M. Green. No back cover blurb but instead a picture of the church carving said to have inspired Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat character Published 1972. I loved this almost pamphlet-like book in my pre-teen years. It's a collection of lost villages, tunnels, ghosts, oddities and the like. It's these regional/ county-specific books and pamphlets by dedicated local historians I've come to appreciate most, Jennie Lee Cobban's being quite my pick of those encountered to date. While Rosemary Anne Lauder's booklet is not ghost exclusive, there are enough of the blighters haunt it's 100 pages to warrant inclusion on this thread. Cases in point; Mary Widdon, the ghost-bride of St Michaels church, Chagford, shot dead at the altar by a jilted lover; Mahala Northcott, the obligatory doomed village beauty, drowned in the River Teign near Chigford Bridge in 1867; Sydney Goldolphin, the phantom cavalier of the Three Crowns Inn; the Black Dog of Blackmoor Gate, and what may yet prove to be a were-nun at Frithelstock Priory. 'Strange Characters' featured include the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, Squire of the multiply haunted Lew Trenchard. 'Strange Shapes — and places' concerns leys, standing stones, a cromech, etc. "These stones on Dartmoor have a good feel ...", Rosemary Anne Lauder, the Nigella Lawson of supernatural research, explores Bowerman's nose and elsewhere. Photo's: Richard Isbell:
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Post by dem bones on Dec 4, 2020 17:27:38 GMT
A Ghost Library Grab bag; The Haunted Pub Guide (1985) Fancy a spirit with your spirits? Inside are suggestions of where to go. Guy Lyon Playfair - The Haunted Pub Guide (Harrap, 1985) Blurb: Wherever you are in Britain, you are not far from a haunted pub, for there is hardly a city, town or village without one. Up and down the country, the procession of phantom monks, cavaliers and veiled ladies waft in and out of our familiar dimension. In remote rural inns and busy urban ones alike, footsteps are heard on staircases and doors open and close on their own, taps and light switches go on and off, temperatures drop suddenly and inexplicably, electrical appliances behave very oddly, things fall off walls and shelves, staff and customers are nudged by invisible entities and sleepers are woken up by unidentifiable bedroom invaders.
These are just a few of the events the author has collected and documented in his research around the country in buildings ancient and modern. He includes a fascinating and original appendix on What is a Ghost anyway?, and practical instruction on How to See a Ghost, based on his own experiences both as an investigator and as a laboratory subject in scientific experiments designed to enhance psychic awareness.
Fully illustrated throughout with many of the author's own pictures taken on his travels, The Haunted Pub Guide is not only an informative guide to over 250 of Britain's haunted pubs but also a book to be read and enjoyed.How depressing that, even pre-Covid, several of the establishments documented had been converted to luxury flats, Paddy Power's and Fried chicken outlets. Jonathan Sutherland - Ghosts of London (Breedon, 2002) Andy Williams Photo Library, Guildford, Surrey Blurb: The ancient city of London is haunted by hundreds of ghosts, including famous historical figures such as Henry VIII, Walter Raleigh and Florence Nightingale, and a host of less well-known but equally fascinating characters. Poltergeists, screaming spectres, headless women and even phantom trains and buses fill the pages of this detailed guide to the spirits that stalk the streets of London. Find out about the ghosts that haunt the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey. discover London's most haunted town house in Berkeley Square, and learn which ghosts to look out for in the pubs of the East End at night. In Ghosts of London, Jon Sutherland reveals the stories behind hauntings in theatres, parks, homes, palaces and pubs all over the capital, from Acton to Woolwich. The book is sure to appeal to ghost-hunters of all ages and nationalities, as well as anyone with an interest in the supernatural. It is a fascinating survey of the ghostly activity of Britain's largest city. Not sure if it's still the case, but there were quite a number of souvenir shops scattered either side of Tower Bridge Road, which were invariably good for remaindered titles like this, though if you already have the seven books listed in the bibliography, the material will be familiar, the author having cannibalised them to compile his glossy coffee table effort. Brooks, Ghosts of London still my pick of those read to date. The Andrew Green belongs to the same series as the Ghosts of Surrey Sam alerted us to. J. A. Brooks, Haunted London, Jarrold, 1982 Joan Forman, The Haunted South, Jarrold, 1984 Andrew Green, Mysteries of London, Napier, 1973 Antony Hipisley-Cross, Haunted Britain, Pan 1973 John & Anne Spencer, The Ghost Handbook, 1988 Peter Underwood, The A-Z of British Ghosts, Souvenir, 1971 Richard Jones, Walking Haunted London, New Holland, 1999 John Harries - The Ghost Hunter's Road Book (Revised edition, Rupert Crew Ltd, 1974: 0riginally Frederick Muller, 1968). Acknowledgements
Island of Ghosts North South East West Midlands London Home Counties Wales Scotland
IndexBlurb: The Ghost Hunter’s Road Book
Britain has ever been known as a haunted land. Phantom hounds and spectral horsemen have roamed the countryside for centuries. The psychic influences of long-dead Romans, Normans and Cavaliers still pervade ancient highways and half-forgotten battle-grounds. Hardly a village or town is without its haunted house or spook-ridden churchyard. And the bizarre procession of spectres who know no resting place is constantly augmented by new spirits from the realm of the supernatural. Ghost cars and lorries, uneasy victims of two world wars, tragic characters in notorious crimes, and the seemingly cheerful ghosts who were loved in life and have returned to recapture that adulation constantly add to the mass of British ghost lore. In The Ghost Hunter’s Road Book, John Harries records the authenticated stories and experiences he has gathered after many hundreds of miles of ghost-hunting through England, Wales and Scotland. The scores of inexplicable phenomena he reports represent a challenge to the sceptic and a magnet for the adventurous. In all instances the favoured time and area of haunting are given, as well as regional maps and the appropriate itinerary for the traveller who is ready to explore a more mysterious and fascinating Britain than that of the guide books.
John Harries has been a full-time writer since the war, in which he served with the R.A.F. A specialist in travel, he has visited every corner of the British Isles in search of the unusual and tourist-appeal material and currently lives in the Chiltern Hills, within audible distance of one of the most bizarre of the animal hauntings described in his new book.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 6, 2020 1:25:43 GMT
Decided to re-read this one as I remember it being entertaining.
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Post by ripper on Dec 6, 2020 12:03:15 GMT
The Angel of Mons: Phantom Soldiers and Ghostly Guardians by David Clarke (Wiley, 2005)
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The Angel of Mons recounts the tale of the advancement of German troops through Mons in 1914, to meet the ill-prepared British Expeditionary Force. The British troops were forced to retreat, with little hope of saving the lives of those at the front. It is in these extreme circumstances that many of the wounded and dying soldiers brought back from the Western Front, reported having been rescued by strange angelic forms in the sky that protected them from massacre - The Angel of Mons. David Clarke follows this and other myths and rumours in an effort to trace the reality behind the Angel of Mons and discover what it was the soldiers saw.
A very interesting account of this famous legend from WWI. Clarke traces the history of the account from the trenches back to newspaper reports, and the part played by The Bowmen in an effort to discover the truth behind it all.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 6, 2020 13:53:57 GMT
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 6, 2020 21:06:04 GMT
Two more favorites from my collection; highly recommended.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 7, 2020 7:00:27 GMT
J. A. Brooks - Ghosts of London: The West End, South and West (Jarrold, 1982) The cover photograph was taken at the London Dungeon Introduction
Parks and Palaces Tyburn - 'Albion's Fatal Tree’ Mayfair From Baker Street to Soho Covent Garden Holborn and Around The Embankment Westminster Bloomsbury The House in Berkeley Square Ghosts of the London Theatres West Drayton Ickenham, Twickenham, Cranford and Egham Hampton Court and Richmond Chiswick Brentford and Ealing Hammersmith Chelsea and Kensington Blackfriars and Southwark East to Woolwich St. Thomas’s Hospital . Westwards from Lambeth to Barnes Clapham and Stockwell
Bibliography indexBlurb: It is inevitable that a city as deeply steeped in history as London should have a rich array of ghosts. This book tells you where to look for the ghosts of the famous — Cromwell, Anne Boleyn, Jeremy Bentham, and many more. Here too there are many other curious tales of the supernatural: the ghostly bus that may be encountered in North Kensington; the deadly mummy-case in the British Museum; and the 'strangler jacket’ which attempted to throttle actresses who wore it. The ghosts here span the centuries and often illuminate dark corners of the past. This is the second part of Ghosts of London, dealing with the West End plus the south and west of Greater London. The first part, the companion volume, covers the City and East End, with Greater London to the north and east. Both books have a wealth of pictures (more than 100 overall) and they form part of a growing series which includes the following titles ...Companion volumes to The East End, City and North (I think they may have began life as a single hardcover edition?). Ghosts familiar, haunting's new. Hostile parks and their terrible trees, including Black Sally's Elm in Hyde Park and the suicide's impromptu gallows of choice in Green Park. Lots of theatre stuff, some of it - including Thora Hird versus the infernal strangling jacket - via Richard Davis's splendid I've Seen a Ghost; the phantom bus of West Kensington; the sarcophagus that sank the Titanic (and, according to Sir Ernest Budge (allegedly), "Never print what I say in my lifetime, but that mummy-case caused the war."); the true history of 'the Hammersmith Monster' hoax ... or was it?; The Shrouded Spectre, a classy, rationalised ghost story from something called Mother Shipton's Miscellany. Thanks to Swampi for recommending (landed a copy for a very reasonable £2.39 inc. p&p from goldstonebooks.co.uk).
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 8, 2020 1:04:52 GMT
These two are worth getting a hold of:
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Post by helrunar on Dec 8, 2020 3:11:58 GMT
Miss Scarlett, thanks for recommending the Obake Files books by Glen Grant. I did get a copy of the one that has material about indigenous Hawai'ian religion and such phenomena as fireballs, magical rocks, Pele,and ghost marchers. Good stuff!
Best, Steve
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Post by ripper on Dec 8, 2020 19:51:46 GMT
The Angel of Mons was just one legend that was circulating during and after WWI, but probably the one that has lasted longest in the public mind. Others were that German soldiers crucified a Canadian prisoner of war, phantom hounds and bands of cannibal deserters were roaming no-man's land and Russian soldiers were being secretly transported through Britain for deployment on the western front, plus many more.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 10, 2020 11:13:25 GMT
Mike Hall - Haunted Places of Middlesex (Countryside Books, 2004). Introduction
BLOOD STAINES: The Black Boy of Duncroft — The Curse of Laleham Church — The Matriarch and the Midnight Children — Erasmus at Shepperton — The Phantom Plane Crash — Strange Things in Sunbury HAMPTON COURT HAUNTINGS: Three Queens and a Cardinal — The Prince's Nurse — An Odd Assortment — An Arachnaphobic Footnote WRAITHS ALONG THE RIVER: Dead Poet's Society — Terrors at Twickenham — The King's Mistress — The Artist's Models — The Murder of the Hammersmith Ghost — The Woman Sewn up in a Sack - Railway Sleepers - And the Ghost Came Too — How to Tame a Poltergeist HORRORS NEAR HEATHROW: An Unexpected Guest — Highwayman's Heath — The Laughing Children — Still looking for his Briefcase — The Last Wolf of Perry Oaks — M for Mystery — Something Unexpected in the Kitchen — Creepy Computers at The Red House - Messenger of Doom — The Black Raven of St Martin's TALES FROM THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER: Northolt Ghosts — Along the Arterial Road — Dirty Deeds at Black Jack's Lock — The Warrior of Horsenden Hill — The Boy in the Box SPOOKS IN THE SUBURBS: The Phantom Number 7 Bus — Has the Wind Changed? — Peculiar Feelings in Ealing - Visitor at Midnight — Hendon Hauntings — Monks, Nuns and a Dead Beatle — Doctor Crippen's Parcel — Islington Incredibles HAM AND HIGH JINX: Drinking Companions — The First Frozen Chicken — Holding out his Hands for Friendship — Medium Rare — Hunting the Vampire in Highgate Cemetery LEA VALLEY LEGENDS: The Enfield Poltergeist — Followed Around — The Spirit of the Chase — Following in Herbert's Footsteps — Flinging Herself to her Death — Wailing Dogs and a White Lady
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INDEXBlurb: SINCE TIME BEGAN, stories of the supernatural have been passed down through the generations. Every age and every area in England has a large fund of these tales which cannot be explained. Middlesex’s own stories are numerous and varied. They include the ghost of a murdered black boy who used to haunt Duncroft House, in Staines; the sound of an aeroplane crashing into a field at Shepperton, thought to be the phantom of a real crash in 1929; the wraith of the poet Alexander Pope, limping up the aisle of St Mary’s church, Twickenham; the mournful spectre of Lady Castlemaine, mistress of Charles II, who spent her last years at Walpole House, Chiswick; and the shade of a well-dressed man who has been seen searching for a briefcase on Runway One at Heathrow airport. Other stories tell of a Woman, carrying a bag in each hand, walking into oncoming traffic on the M4; the apparition of a No.7 bus which used to appear, lights blazing but empty in North Kensington; a mysterious midnight visitor arriving in a hackney cab at the headmaster’s house, Harrow School; and the antics of a poltergeist, in August 1977, at a council house in Enfield. The numerous ghosts, particularly royal, that have been seen at Hampton Court Palace, must make it the most haunted building in Middlesex. This book, which takes the reader on a journey through the haunted places of Middlesex will absorb and fascinate even the most hardened sceptic.Handy compilation of fact, 'fact' and folk legend from the former county of Middlesex, since, for the most part, absorbed into North and West London. Includes a tragic end to the Hammersmith 'Ghost' hunt; the house of twenty suicides - and a child murder - in Montpelier Road, Ealing ("Walk over the parapet, its only twelve inches to the lawn. You won't hurt yourself."); the phantom fried breakfast of Chiswick House; a furniture-stacking phantom at Twickenham stadium; the Woman sewn up in a sack, aka the hair-pulling phantom of Beavor lodge. A seance reveals that she was either a serving maid who fatally disturbed a gang of counterfeiters, or a nun who buried her love child in the adjoining meadow. The incorrigible Augustus 'Croglin Hall Vampire' Hare chimes in with a low-key account of a haunting at Harrow School. And Paul is still dead.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 20, 2020 14:52:51 GMT
Christina Hole - Haunted England (Fitzhouse, 1990: originally Batsford, Nov. 1940) Preface Note to second edition
The Ghost Belief The Threshold of Death Purposeful Ghosts Mortal Remains Ghosts of the Great Traces of Past Events Traditional Tales Violent Death Quiet Ghosts Unknown Ghosts Coaches and Horsemen Animal Ghosts Poltergeists
Bibliography Index Blurb: Belief in ghosts is the oldest creed of all. For our ancestors it was normal — and probably even healthy! — to receive or believe in many kinds of visitations, not only from the White or Brown Ladies or the obligatory Black Dog, guardians against evil influence. Travel, property, treasure, marriage, justice, crimes of passion — our ghostlore has associations with all aspects of Life and Death. Ghosts themselves were often attributed with specific tasks, from key witness in a murder trial to friend returning from the afterlife with important advice on how to look after his sword.
With this abundant, colourful material Christina Hole has mixed social history, more recent explanations and a good deal of humour and plain common sense: the reader is led through stories that are always memorable and educational towards the more individual and well authenticated mysteries. Woden and the Wild Hunt, initially headless horsemen, are found to vary from county to county before acquiring a coach, but remaining headless. Folk memories such as these give away to an array of ghosts quite as amazing in their variety as the correspondence, magazines, parish circulars and the local and spiritual histories (It Happened in Hampshire) in which they are recorded.
We find vengeful and chastising ghosts, treasure searching or guarding ghosts, those who wish to confess or issue warnings or prevent the building of the Midland Railways; some are long-distance - Admiral Tryon came from Syria to a party in Chelsea as his ship was sinking, some wished to talk — ‘Give me back my teeth’, others to sit peaceably in a library and read. Battles already waged or buildings centuries gone flash before the eyes of innocent bystanders — as does future violence: Mr Williams of Redruth dreamt three times of an actual assassination in the House of Commons.
Finally there are those ghosts — like that of Calverley Hall in Yorkshire — which have the strongest identity of all: originating in what seem unremarkable if violent, Elizabethan circumstances, there have been experiments and sightings by dutiful householders and Royal Commissions over hundreds of years — but the ghost remains as mysterious a presence as the night it first appeared.
Mrs Hole has demonstrated once again that English lore is in the safest possible hands; the illustrations by John Farleigh do full justice to the text and to a subject both funny and serious in equal measure.A cheering read for the most part, not especially gory but, even in it's quieter moments, seldom dull. Author is as amused as she is enthused by her subject matter, and tells a good story All star line-up includes; William Doggett, the alleged 'vampire' of Tarrant Gunville; the Black Lady of Wensleydale; the Silky of Black Heddon; the unquiet spirit of Madam Beswick, aka the Mummy of Birchen Bower; Galloping Dick Turpin, William Corder of 'The murder in the Red Barn' notoriety; various wives of Henry VIII; assorted phantom cattle, black dogs (heads optional); ghost bears, and the tragic Walter Calverley. All this, and John Farleigh's delightful illustrations make for a Vault True Ghost Library classic.
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