Borley Rectory: “Most Haunted”
21st October 2025 by lobster1970 | UncategorizedBorley Rectory: “Most Haunted” Bells that rang themselves, messages on walls, a nun in the lane — and Harry Price with notebooks and headlines. Fire took the house in 1939; debate took the legend afterwards: frauds alleged, believers steadfast, archives pored over again and again. Whatever you conclude, the story’s grip is real — the..
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Witch Bottles
21st October 2025 by lobster1970 | UncategorizedThe candle trembles, and the timbers above my head creak in the stillness. The night air is filled with distant sounds: an owl’s mournful cry, the sharp bark of a fox, the restless whisper of the wind. These are the sounds of old England, and they carry with them memories of how our ancestors sought..
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Witches of Warboys
20th October 2025 by lobster1970 | UncategorizedThe rafters strain as the wind drives rain against the windows, a constant drumming that seeps into the bones of the house. Wax runs down the side of my candle, hissing as it pools, while the shadows shift and lean across the room. Nights such as this belong to dread — and dread belonged to..
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Pluckley, Kent: A Dozen Ghosts
20th October 2025 by lobster1970 | UncategorizedOrchards, lanes, and — say the guidebooks — a roll‑call of ghosts: a White Lady, a miller, a coach that stops for no door. The village even embraced (and sometimes rolled its eyes at) the “most haunted” crown. Recent local research tries to separate folklore from fact — but in autumn fog the yew still..
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All Hallows Eve
20th October 2025 by lobster1970 | UncategorizedAll Hallows’ Eve, now referred to as Halloween (31 Oct), is the evening before All Saints’ Day—a Christian vigil that, in Britain and Ireland, grew alongside older seasonal customs marking the turn into winter. Medieval communities kept the Hallowtide (All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints, All Souls) with prayer for the dead and acts of remembrance…
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Pendle Witches
19th October 2025 by lobster1970 | UncategorizedPendle Witches At this time of year, I often find myself still at my desk long after night has settled. The candle burns low, its light throwing uneven shadows across the pages. Outside, the wind rattles against the panes, as though something presses close, eager to be heard. In such moments the mind turns more..
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Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General
18th October 2025 by lobster1970 | UncategorizedMatthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General The night deepens. Candlelight trembles, and beyond the walls the country is alive with sound — the hoot of an owl, the bark of a fox, the sigh of the wind through the hedgerows. Such a night belongs to shadows, and it was in such shadows that Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General,..
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My Diary of October 2025: The Ghost of the Tulip Staircase
17th October 2025 by lobster1970 | UncategorizedThe night is still, the moon a pale lantern above the fields, and the fen mist curls close against the windows. From the hedgerows I hear the rustle of some unseen creature, the distant call of an owl. These are the sounds that stir my thoughts towards old tales — stories that linger where silence..
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Elizabeth Sawyer: Witchcraft Accusation
17th October 2025 by lobster1970 | UncategorizedThe night deepens, and candlelight trembles on the page before me. Beyond the window lies silence, yet in memory the voices of the past return — voices like that of Elizabeth Sawyer of Edmonton, tried and executed in 1621. Elizabeth was a poor woman, elderly and often quarrelsome. She begged for scraps of firewood, fell..
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Agnes Sampson: Women and Witch?
16th October 2025 by lobster1970 | UncategorizedAt this hour, when the candle burns low and the shadows of my desk creep further into the room, I think of the voices once forced to speak in darkness. Some whispered in fear, others cried out in agony. So it was in Scotland in 1591, when Agnes Sampson, the Wise Wife of Keith,..
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