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 | 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 | 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 | Oct 30, 2024 | avebury, history, history of Wiltshire, wiltshire
By Professor Jasper Heathcoat-Beech You may have noticed I teamed up with Professor Jasper Heathcoat-Beech this year to launch our History and Mystery Walks. We’ve been to Avebury and Stonehenge. Each walk has been a lovely, happy time with likeminded new...
by eheard | Jun 10, 2024 | avebury, folklore, ghost, haunted houses, hauntings, history, history of Wiltshire, paranormal, stone circle, wiltshire
This blog has been quite a long time coming. I started this series in 2022 and although I have been back to Avebury several times (because it is one of my favourite Wiltshire destinations) I haven’t had the chance to go into the Avebury Manor or wander St James...
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...
