by eheard | Oct 16, 2024 | history, history of Wiltshire, Savernake, wiltshire
It’s October as I sit and write this. I just spent a muddy afternoon cycling around Savernake Forest. I dragged the family along for what they regarded as ‘torture’. Quite frankly, by the time we were 2.5 hours in, the moaning and whining was like torture to me!...
by eheard | Sep 22, 2024 | history, history of Wiltshire, UFOs, Warminster, wiltshire
A Skywatcher Remembers Did you catch my last blog, The Warminster Thing Part One? If so, you’ll know all about the crazy phenomenon from the days of The Warminster Thing. If not, head back and have a quick catch up here. It’s worth reading before you hear...
by eheard | Aug 29, 2024 | history, history of Wiltshire, UFOs, Warminster, wiltshire
When UFOs came to a sleepy Wiltshire village It still surprises me that I didn’t really know of the Warminster Thing for the first twenty years of living here in Wiltshire, especially as it happened only half an hour or so away from where I live. Such a massive...
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 | May 7, 2024 | ghost, Grave, hauntings, history, history of Wiltshire, paranormal, Salisbury, wiltshire
Here are three ghostly tales, told to me by a lady called Jan. All happened in Wiltshire and all have left a strong impression on Jan, now in her late 60s. The Ghostly Warning This happened in the early 2000s, on the road through the Woodford Valley, which is a fairly...