The Rector’s Ghost The ghost of a long-serving rector appears in his old church at Christmas.
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Chris Woodyard
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December 1, 2018
in Christmas , Ephemera , Ghosts , News , religion , Victorian
and tagged Ambrose Hunt , Christmas ghost stories , Christmastide ghosts , Dorset ghosts , English ghost stories , ghostly clergyman , Rectors of St Peter's Church , St Peter's Church Dorchester , The Rector's Ghost , The Rev. Henry John Richman , The Rev. Nathaniel Templeman , Thomas Hardy
The Black Ghost – Part Two The Black Ghost at Castel-a-Mare encountered by Lord St Audries and his friends.
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Chris Woodyard
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September 15, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News
and tagged Beverley Nichols , Devonshire ghosts , English ghost stories , faceless ghosts , Lord St. Audries , murder ghosts , suicide ghosts , The Black Ghost , The Black Ghost - Part Two , Torquay ghosts , violent ghosts , Violet Tweedale
An Overwhelming Odour of Corruption was the main feature of the haunting of “Holly Cottage” The stench of corruption, flabby hands, spitting in the dark, and the sound of a coffin being moved. No wonder the rent was so low.
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 4, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Psychic Research , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged an overwhelming odour of corruption , dangerous ghosts , elementals , English ghost stories , ghostly smells , ghostly stench , ghosts , horrors , olfactory hauntings , poltergeists , smell of corruption , smell of decomposition , sound of a coffin being moved
The Veil Between The veil between the living and the dead is torn when a father returns for his young daughter.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 16, 2018
in Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , Victorian
and tagged dead father returns , dead father visits child , Edwardian ghost stories , English ghost stories , Father's Day , ghostly father , The Veil Between , Victorian ghost stories
“Here I Am Again!” Two terrifying visitations from the same malign entity, twenty years apart.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 9, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Victorian
and tagged "Here I Am Again!" , English ghost stories , Ghost Book of Lord Halifax , ghosts , Old Hag , sleep paralysis
The frequent appearance of a “dead” woman to her sister and other persons, including a clergyman, over the course of several years. The ghost was also remarkably physical, dragging her child out of bed and shoving her former husband into the street.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 15, 2015
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism
and tagged Cambridgeshire , Cambridgeshire ghosts , English ghost stories , family spirits , Mepal , mother's ghost , Spiritualism
A bare-bones true Victorian ghost story from a Derbyshire doctor.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 25, 2014
in Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Psychic Research , Victorian
and tagged deathbed apparition , Derby , Derbyshire , English ghost stories , Holloway
Jack Frost Nipping at Your Nose: Christmas and New Year’s Ghosts Here is a case of Jack Frost Nipping at Your Nose, with a vengeance.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 18, 2012
in Christmas , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Christmas ghosts , English ghost stories , frozen to death , ghosts , haunted houses , Jack Frost , Jack Frost Nipping at Your Nose: Christmas and New Year's Ghosts , Kent ghosts , mysterious death