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Dartmouth, Devon, ancient maritime town has many ghost stories. [6] 30 East Drive, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, reportedly haunted by a poltergeist known as The Black Monk of Pontefract. [7] Flitwick Manor in Bedfordshire, reputedly haunted and appeared on Strange but True? in 1995. [8] [9]
[16] [17] These are a series of twelve ghost stories, mostly set locally, which were presumably intended for inclusion in sermons as exempla and which reflect orally circulating folklore in Yorkshire at the time. While not a major literary production in their own time, these stories have since come to be regarded as important evidence for ...
In 1974, Len and Jenny Maynard (Steven Waddington and Kate Ashfield) move into a new home in Yorkshire, where their 13-year-old daughter Sally is haunted by the ghost of a young girl and the demonic ghost of a monk.
These very real and very scary ghost stories about paranormal hauntings, apparitions and the supernatural will turn even the biggest skeptics into believers. 16 very real, very scary, ghost ...
Footpath from Kippax to Mary Panel Hill in West Yorkshire. The ghost of Mary Pannal is said to haunt the woods near Pannal Hill, near Castleford. The suggestion is that if someone sees her ghost, which will be leading a horse, then someone close to them will die. [1] A play inspired by her biography, Maleficium!
New Ghost Stories (1893) is regarded as a fine example of the Victorian, pre-Jamesian ghost story genre. The book went through at least three printings in 1893/94 as a 'sixpenny novel' and was still available for mail order a decade later, having become a mainstay of popular fireside fiction within the publisher's 'Popular Sixpenny' paperbacks ...
The clough is the setting for many boggart stories, including one of how a local farmer, George Cheetham, and his family were forced to leave their home due to the torment inflicted by a boggart. However, as they were taking their possessions away in a cart, the voice of the boggart was heard issuing from a milk-churn on the cart.
Articles relating to the folklore of Yorkshire, the traditions common to a culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as tales , legends , proverbs and jokes . Pages in category "Yorkshire folklore"