Urban Legends: The Vanishing Hitchhiker
Resurrection Mary and Pele are two of the most well-known phantom passengers of the 20th Century.
There is No Death in Bruges-la-Morte
In her book on spiritism “There Is No Death”, published in 1891, Florence Marryat told the story of a séance that was held in a haunted house in Bruges, that soon would be known as “Bruges-la-Morte”, because of the famous novel of Georges Rodenbach…
The Pilot’s Ghost of Montrose
This is probably the oldest ghost story in the history of aviation. The little Irishman Desmond Arthur, black-haired and grey-eyed, gained his Royal Aero Club certificate in June 1912 and was killed in May 1913 when the BE2 biplane he was flying over Montrose in Scotland folded up in the air. But it was no flying accident. It was murder…
We All Live in a Haunted Submarine
In Germany a submarine was called an U-boat, or “Unterseeboot”. At the outbreak of World War One, Germany had 33 of them. With the possibility of rich prizes off the British and Irish coasts and in the Channel, in early 1916 an entire flotilla of 24 U-boats was launched in the North Sea. One of them was the U-65, and from the very beginning there was talk about “jinxes” and “hoodoos”.
The Hell Hound of No Man’s Land
The French author Albert Dauzat told a fascinating legend that emerged from World War One in a book that was published two years after the Great War. Civilian skeptics laughed at the soldiers’ tales of the murderous giant hound of No Man’s Land, but to the soldiers it was a gruesome reality…
The Hand of an Egyptian Princess
Had the spectre of an Egyptian Princess something to do with the Curse of Tutankhamen? And why was this story revealed by an occultist named "Cheiro", which is Greek for hand?
Famous Phantom Visitors of Hampton Court
Hampton Court Palace, on the banks of the Thames, is considered one of the most haunted buildings in the United Kingdom. Most of the famous phantom visitors are contemporaries of Henry VIII, like Cardinal Thomas Wolsey who gave the palace to Henry, two of Henry’s beheaded wives, and maybe the Tudor King himself returned to the palace in December 2003.
The Spirits of Levens Hall, South Cumbria
I describe all the characters that haunt Levens Hall; including a gypsy woman, phantom black dog, mysterious pink lady, traffic ghost and the spirit of a harpsichord player.
