by eheard | Oct 29, 2026 | avebury, ghost, halloween, haunted houses, haunted workplace, hauntings, lacock, mysteries, paranormal, personal story, Salisbury, wiltshire
It’s becoming an annual event for me – the creation of my Seven Days of Halloween social posts where I search out seven short and spooky tales to share. I like to sit down, with a cup of tea of course, preferably when the darkness falls, rain lashing at the windows of...
by eheard | Sep 6, 2026 | history, history of Wiltshire, wiltshire
Anybody who liked my WW piece ‘An Alvediston Horror Story’ might be interested in this piece about Gallows Hill, Alvediston. Both accounts are about bodies left to rot. If you were squeamish about John Gawen’s body being dragged out of his tomb in the church by...
by eheard | Sep 6, 2026 | history, history of Wiltshire, wiltshire
When I left London to live in Wiltshire and settled in Tisbury, I got a map and drew a circle with a 13-mile radius from my bungalow and decided to explore each village inside the circle one by one. I gave each of them a ‘strangeness-rating’ based on whether anything...
by eheard | Aug 24, 2026 | avebury, history, history of Wiltshire, personal story, wiltshire
When I sat down to write this blog, it was simply going to be about the history of Windmill Hill – more informative than anything else. But these little trips I take, poking around the Wiltshire countryside, looking for ‘things’, well it’s as much about the people I...
by eheard | Aug 23, 2026 | Dorset, ghost, haunted houses, hauntings, personal story, Swindon, wiltshire
It’s now well into August, the dog days of summer, and smack bang in the middle of holiday season here in the UK. What could be a more fitting blog for you today, being created by me, sizzling away in The Shed at Weird Wiltshire HQ, than a story of a haunted holiday...
