by eheard | Feb 6, 2026 | haunted houses, paranormal, personal story
‘Newmains is probably best known for one of the worst E. coli breakouts ever.’ Charlie tells me when I ask him where he is from. An interesting claim to fame for this small 19th-century village, far up the island in North Lanarkshire and a bit of a trek...
by eheard | Jan 4, 2026 | avebury, cryptid, folklore, ghost, hauntings, history of Wiltshire, legends, paranormal, superstitions, wiltshire
Happy New Year my friends! It has been a quiet Christmas here at Weird Wiltshire HQ. The liminal time of what I call ‘the inbetween’, the strangely quiet days between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, have now passed by. It’s a period of the...
by eheard | Dec 15, 2025 | history of Wiltshire, wiltshire
Wiltshire’s Last Mortsafe I’m sitting here in a café in Crockerton on a very autumnal late afternoon with a well-deserved cup of tea and a chunk of Dorset apple cake, which is my substitute for both breakfast and lunch today. I’m waiting for my teenage son to...
by eheard | Dec 1, 2025 | Hindon, history of Wiltshire, Salisbury, tisbury, wiltshire
It’s time to delve into a bit of the history of Fonthill estate and a couple of its most notorious owners in this blog, the first part of my Fonthill history series. Returning guest writer, David Aneurin Morgan, will be telling us the story of the evil Mervyn...
by eheard | Nov 30, 2025 | Fonthill, Hindon, history of Wiltshire, Salisbury, tisbury, wiltshire
This is the second blog in the history series connected to the rather unsavoury past of the Fonthill estate in south-west Wiltshire, from guest writer David Aneurin Morgan. It’s a reminder that despite the beauty of a place such as Fonthill, there is always a...
