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- 3 days ago16 min
The Battle of Sedgemoor: Ghosts of Monmouth’s Last Stand
In the early hours of 6 July 1685, the quiet fields near Westonzoyland, Somerset became the scene of the bloody final battle of the Monmouth Rebellion.James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, had challenged his uncle King James II for the English throne. His rebel army marched silently across Sedgemoor under cover of darkness, hoping to surprise the Royal forces. Instead, drainage ditches, confusion and a single alarm helped turn the attack into disaster.Hundreds were killed. Survivors faced imprisonment, execution, transportation and the notorious Bloody Assizes under Judge Jeffreys.But Sedgemoor has another history.Phantom horsemen are said to cross the fields. Ghostly soldiers have been reported around King’s Sedgemoor Drain. Voices call through the darkness, while an old Somerset legend tells of a murdered runner and the White Lady who still follows the route of his final race.In this episode of Ghost Tales by the Fireside, we explore the history, archaeology, ghost stories and folklore surrounding the Battle of Sedgemoor — and ask what might still linger on the Somerset Levels.Music featured in this episodeAmong The Graves — Clem DallawayISRC: QZNWR2463170The Dark One — Clem DallawayISRC: QZWFS2504572More Ghost Tales by the Fireside:ghosttales.co.ukSupport Ghost Tales by the Fireside on Buy Me a Coffee:buymeacoffee.com/ghosttales
- 6 days ago11 min
The Woman in Black of Wilden - A Victorian Roadside Ghost
In the summer of 1873 or 1874, Charlotte Goodhall and her daughter May were travelling by pony carriage along a quiet road between Wilden and Ravensden in Bedfordshire when they saw a woman dressed entirely in black.She wasn't walking.She appeared to glide across the grass.As their carriage passed within only a few feet of her, the woman turned towards them, revealing what Charlotte later described as a terrifying “fiendish” face. May looked back and saw the mysterious figure staring after them.Seconds later, she had vanished.Nearly twenty years later, the extraordinary encounter was investigated by Frank Podmore of the Society for Psychical Research and preserved among its studies of apparitions and collective hallucinations.But there was another disturbing detail.When Charlotte tried to discover who they had seen, she learned that the road was already said to be haunted.Over the following century, the mysterious Woman in Black became part of Bedfordshire folklore, eventually acquiring another identity, the Witch of Wilden.But was the witch story ever true?In this episode of Ghost Tales by the Fireside: Dark Folklore, we return to the original Victorian testimony and follow the strange evolution of one of Bedfordshire's most intriguing roadside ghost stories.Ghost Tales by the FiresideGhost stories, haunted places, British folklore, dark history and unexplained encounters from across the UK.Website: https://ghosttales.co.ukSupport Ghost Tales by the Fireside:https://buymeacoffee.com/ghosttales
- 1 weeks ago18 min
Blackness Castle – Ghosts, Prisoners & Scotland’s Haunted Fortress
Blackness Castle has stood on the Firth of Forth for nearly 600 years. Known as “The Ship That Never Sailed,” this extraordinary Scottish castle has been a royal stronghold, artillery fortress and state prison.In this episode of Ghost Tales by the Fireside, we uncover the real history behind Blackness Castle — from its medieval origins and Cromwell’s devastating siege to the Covenanters and political prisoners confined within its walls.We also explore the archaeology still hidden beneath the castle, the legend of a secret underground tunnel and the paranormal stories that followed — including unexplained noises in empty rooms and the woman who claimed she was chased from the Prison Tower by the ghost of an armoured knight.Is Blackness Castle really haunted, or have nearly six centuries of history created one of Scotland’s most atmospheric ghost stories?Ghost Tales by the FiresideTrue ghost stories, haunted places, folklore and the history behind the legends.Website:https://ghosttales.co.ukSupport Ghost Tales on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/ghosttales
- 1 weeks ago9 min
The Man on the Line: The Ghost of Ashton Moss
In early 1975, a signalman working at OA&GB Junction near Ashton Moss heard footsteps climbing the stairs to his signal box. He saw an unfamiliar man carrying a bag reach the top — but when he opened the door, nobody was there.One week later, a mysterious figure appeared beside the railway. This time, two signalmen saw him from separate locations and approached from opposite directions. The man should have been trapped between them.Instead, he vanished.In this episode of Ghost Tales by the Fireside, we explore the history of the Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway and one of Greater Manchester's quietly disturbing railway ghost stories.Was the mysterious visitor simply a trespasser who somehow escaped unnoticed, or had an old railwayman returned to a place he once knew?
- 2 weeks ago24 min
Battle Abbey – Ghosts of the Battle of Hastings
Battle Abbey stands on the site of one of the most famous battles in English history, where King Harold fell and William the Conqueror defeated the English army in 1066.But the ghosts said to haunt Battle Abbey are not only the dead of the Battle of Hastings.There are sightings of mysterious monks wandering the medieval ruins, a silent horseman crossing the battlefield, unexplained sounds from empty rooms and the unidentified Woman in Red. In 2002, a teacher and two pupils reportedly saw a monk they believed was a costumed interpreter — only to discover that nobody was dressed as a monk that day.There is also the extraordinary curse supposedly placed upon Sir Anthony Browne after the Dissolution of the Monasteries: a warning that his family would perish by fire and water.And after heavy rain, the battlefield itself can appear to bleed.In this episode of Ghost Tales by the Fireside, we explore the history, folklore, ghost stories and reported paranormal encounters surrounding Battle Abbey and the battlefield of 1066.
- 2 weeks ago9 min
Jack and Jill Hill: The Dark Somerset Story Behind the Nursery Rhyme
Everyone knows the nursery rhyme. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after.But in the Somerset village of Kilmersdon, an old local legend gives those familiar words a much darker meaning.Here, Jack and Jill are remembered not as children, but as young lovers. The story tells of a secret pregnancy, a fatal falling stone, a child left behind and a local surname supposedly born from the tragedy.And Kilmersdon has something else.A real Jack and Jill Hill — and at the top of it, a genuine medieval well.So could one of Britain's best-known nursery rhymes preserve the memory of a real Somerset tragedy?In this episode of Ghost Tales by the Fireside: Dark Folklore, we follow the old path through Kilmersdon and discover where history ends and one of Somerset's strangest legends begins.Website: www.ghosttales.co.ukSupport Ghost Tales by the Fireside on Buy Me a Coffee.
- 3 weeks ago20 min
The Enfield Poltergeist — Britain’s Most Famous Poltergeist Case
In August 1977, strange events began inside an ordinary council house at 284 Green Street, Enfield.Peggy Hodgson's children claimed their beds were moving. Knocking sounds came from the walls. Furniture appeared to move by itself. Neighbours were called into the house, followed by the police and WPC Carolyn Heeps later reported seeing an armchair move across the living-room floor.What followed became one of Britain's most famous and controversial paranormal cases.Investigators Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair spent months at Green Street, witnessing and recording extraordinary phenomena. Objects were reportedly thrown, furniture moved, and eleven-year-old Janet Hodgson began producing a strange, deep voice that claimed to belong to a former resident named Bill Wilkins.But there is another side to the story.Janet and her sister were caught faking some incidents, and several famous pieces of evidence have much simpler possible explanations.Sceptics have argued that the entire case can be explained by tricks, exaggeration and credulous investigators.Yet some incidents were reportedly witnessed by neighbours, journalists, police officers and others outside the Hodgson family.So what really happened at 284 Green Street?This episode of Ghost Tales by the Fireside goes back to the original Enfield Poltergeist case, separating the documented events from the mythology that has grown around them and asking the question that still hangs over Green Street nearly fifty years later:If some of it was faked… was all of it?
- 3 weeks ago7 min
The Ghost of the Shipwrights Arms - A Haunted Pub on the Kent Marshes
Out on the lonely marshes near Faversham, Kent, stands the Shipwrights Arms — an isolated old pub with a ghost story that has lingered for generations.Local tradition tells of a sailor whose ship foundered in the Swale on a bitter winter night.Somehow he survived the wreck and struggled across the freezing mudflats towards the lights of the pub. He reached the door and knocked... but nobody let him in.By morning, he was dead on the doorstep.And according to the old story, he never really left.Landlords, landladies and customers have reportedly encountered a thickset, bearded sailor wearing a heavy reefer jacket and peaked cap. Sometimes his arrival is announced only by a sudden chill — and the unmistakable smell of rum, tar and tobacco.This is the strange story of the ghost of the Shipwrights Arms near Faversham.
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