by eheard | Jul 21, 2024 | cryptid, fairies, folklore, ghost, hauntings, history, legends, paranormal, UFOs
Glastonbury Tor This is the first in the series of blogs I plan to write about the mythical and magical lands of Glastonbury and in this blog we visit Glastonbury Tor. It’s somewhere I visit regularly because I feel a great affinity with the place. I’m talking about...
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 | Mar 17, 2024 | folklore, ghost, haunted houses, hauntings, history, history of Wiltshire, legends, paranormal, tisbury, wiltshire
This blog is definitely for the sceptics among you! It’s a story that just goes to show how local folklore, tales that have been passed down from person to person over many years, sometimes centuries, endure the tests of time and eventually become set in local stone...
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 | Oct 5, 2023 | folklore, ghost, Grave, haunted pub, hauntings, history, paranormal, Uncategorized, Wales
It’s not often I research a small town and find there are very few ghost stories associated with the place. Hay on Wye, pretty much on the border of England and Wales, does seem to be a pretty spook-free zone though. It’s unusual! There are a couple of weird tales,...
by eheard | Sep 24, 2023 | avebury, Bowerchalke, devizes, folklore, ghost, Grave, hauntings, history, history of Wiltshire, long barrow, paranormal, stone circle, wiltshire
This week’s blog is not focused on ghosts, although it’s about Wiltshire so there is of course some spookiness, and all the locations hold great mystery and history. It is more about the beauty of Wiltshire, this most wonderful county some of us are lucky enough...