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...
by eheard | Sep 1, 2025 | history, history of Wiltshire, wiltshire
Like many of the Wiltshire locations I cover, the small village of Kilmington in southwest Wiltshire, has history dating back to the prehistoric period. We are spoilt for choice with Neolithic and Iron Age sites in Wiltshire so there has be ‘a little something extra’...
by eheard | Jul 16, 2025 | crop circles, ghost, hauntings, history, history of Wiltshire, paranormal, UFOs
You can’t go far in Wiltshire without coming across a story about some sort of strange phenomenon. There are plenty of tales of lights in the sky and sometimes stories of lights moving along the ground. These quite often occur in and around crop circle hotspots....
