by eheard | Feb 26, 2024 | devon, ghost, haunted houses, hauntings, history, paranormal
Lynne contacted me a little while back to see if I might be interested in her ghostly tales. There’s really no need to ask me; of course I was! Lynne is a social worker and writer, with a love of historical buildings, She uses her work to inspire her writing. The...
by eheard | Feb 10, 2024 | avebury, Bowerchalke, calne, cryptid, devizes, elementals, fairies, folklore, ghost, Grave, haunted houses, haunted pub, haunted workplace, hauntings, history, legends, long barrow, paranormal, Salisbury, stone circle, stonehenge, Swindon, Swindon Old Town, tisbury, wiltshire
This set of spooky little tales originally ran on Twitter and Bluesky through January 2024. It felt like the perfect time of year, a dark and dismal winter month, for sending out these short stories as a series. Some of them you may recognise as they are the more...
by eheard | Jan 14, 2024 | ghost, history, history of Wiltshire, paranormal, wiltshire
We never really know what is happening behind closed doors, do we? And hidden away, on farmland in southern Wiltshire, a rural farmhouse became the home of Oxford-educated physicist and psychical researcher Benson Herbert in 1966, as a base for his unusual and...
by eheard | Dec 24, 2023 | Christmas ghost story, ghost, hauntings, history, paranormal
By Peter Lewis Did you treat yourself to a copy of Haunted Magazine for Christmas? Perhaps not, but I don’t want you to miss out completely on my stories of haunted hands (you can still buy yourself a copy here by the way). Whilst I was doing my research I came across...
by eheard | Dec 17, 2023 | Christmas ghost story, dartmoor, devon, ghost, haunted houses, hauntings, paranormal
One of my favourite things about writing for Weird Wiltshire are the ghost stories I uncover by accident or that come about from a random conversation. It’s when I met up with my friends Emma and Lawrence at Avebury this year, Emma revealed she had lived in a haunted...