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    ~*HISTORY*~ > (GHOSTS Sassen (Oa) (ol uit and owe rte ry ee CUMS ae haa ee ea WELCOME Have you ever seen a ghost? This bookazine is packed with -s, and horrible hauntings! Discover the history of ghost beliefs from the ancient world to the present day. Find out why people believe in ghosts, and the possible cientific explanations behind haunted houses, spectral lights, scary sounds, and spooky apparitions. Explore hoaxes and horrors from some of the world’s most eerie locations, and delve into stories of the phantoms, wraiths and spirits that are thought to frequent them, Learn about the legends and folklore that surround ghost beliefs around the world, from famous figures like headless horsemen to tragic tales of the colourful and ethereal ladies that haunt woods, ¢ and stately homes. Plus, check out modern-day phantasms, possessions and poltergeists, and the paranormal investigators who use traditional spiritual techniques as well as tod: technology to establish whether there really are spectral presences from beyond the veil troubling homes, offices, public buildings, families and communities to thi ~*HISTORY:~ CONTE GHOSTLORE 10 Ghostlore: Studying ghosts and apparitions 20 Ghost festivals around the world 22 Radonitsa: The day of Rejoicing 24 Thursday of the Dead 26 The Hungry Ghost festival 28 Samhain 30 The three days of Allhallowtide 32 Day of the Dead 3% The Ghost Dance 36 Seances 38 Investigating the paranormal 5 44 Ghostly lights 48 The wild hunt 50 The headless horseman 54 Phantom coaches 56 Terror of the seas 60 Doppelgangers 62 The Devil's Footprints SP 00 66 The undead 68 The church grim ‘70 Female ghosts and phantoms 76 The Black Lady of Bradley Woods 78 The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall 80 The Grey Lady of Spring Wood 82 The Lady in Red 84 Spring Heeled Jack 86 Gefthe talking mongoose 88 The Unlucky Mummy 90 Ghostly and vanishing hitchhikers 96 The poltergeist paradox 100 The Loudun possessions 102 The Bell Witch haunting 104 The Great Amhurst Mystery 106 The exorcism of Roland Doe 108 The Rosenheim Poltergeist ‘10 The Enfield Poltergeist ‘124 Borley Rectory ‘The Winchester ‘Mystery House 10 Ghostlore: Studying ghosts and apparitions 20 Ghost festivals around the world 22 Radonitsa: The day of Rejoicing 24 Thursday of the Dead 26 The Hungry Ghost festival 28 Samhain 30 The three days of Allhallowtide 32 Day of the Dead 34 The Ghost Dance 36 Seances 38 Investigating the paranormal GHOST ORE: STUDYING GHOSTS AND APPARITIONS Ghosts are a worldwide, if otherworldly, phenomenon that can scare or comfort - and may offer us clues about the nature of our reality Written by Ben Gazur fallehe humans vet ved, only a banish spectes and bogeymen fm our lives, there seems to “For some spirits, though, it seems as if haunting memories are insufficient - sometimes the dead are said to come back as ghosts” GHOSTS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD In antiquity, ghosts were an accepted part of the natural order - given ancient notions of the afterlife their return was all too understandable Defining moment ; Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld 18th cI wT UEH CNY Nv BATHHOUSE Pee eee et ee eer tee ne eer ee Preaerepereer scent annie Prominence errno Peer ese a er) oe ete Poe eee ets Sete ees 2 ang time afterwards spctres were seen in rman called Nebusemekh. Nebusemeth has roblem. His tomb has crumbled away and he ro longer recenes offerings as no one knows it and build a new one for him tut Nebusemekh sparen the has his doubis post has heard similar promises before frm people he haunts ex the Chinese, respect for ances vitality > benef from thei ak. ispkased dea relative could perform al sof msc Ifthe bail was performed you might expect. The dead might call to anyone for help, however In one ale a young g's spn vist a family and causes so hey tut her well The next night she ag ai tos it don pero Odysseus meets with Achilles, who shone sob co comfort the poor shade ofthe dead cles hei told “By god ater slave on Earth fo who stapes to keep alive - than rule down here ‘overall the breathless dead” Fr later Greeks and Romans th that offered he dead a way toa beter afl, b hen their baleful shades could come ack to the of he lving Pliny the Younger described ron a man named Athenodorus vised a punted house in Athens inte night with a lamp. H yin if. When Odysseus res ne stayed upal pend the shost rating chains and eventually saw him When he followed the ghost nto the gan he noted the sot where the spit vanished. The is faced witha mighty army of Philistines The prophet Samuel who might have advised him is dead and Saul des not know how 10 ner ntact Sane king yoman, the Witch o do who abl to summon up the ghost of the propel. The words of the hod comfort to Saul but they do eer us a limp rmediumship in the ancient world The classical view of ghosts and spins as pale shades came to an end with the supremacy Chistanty. The Christan afterlife was an together more jelly afi for departed souls than the gloomy feds awaiting dead Geeks 1d Romans, Yet even the fllawes of Jesus had their concerns about ghosts. After resurrection of Jesus the Gospel of Lake Teagan the same uppers his cry when text day fn he peg up allen, tel sth he dips who soi wet theta cave ot aga place her eptinstl rpedinchaln, waseated Glen afiting fad because ty eat he was a st ihr he sisted wah her burl and pases ull te ght was neve sen ain desist to convince them he aly tuk into the ae The lever Dies supesngy quit on by telingthom tt myslt Touch me and knsent Geske he mater of what happens ose deh. se aghest doesnt hae lsh al Does 3 ge hao gious erie However the Bock of Sune King Sa specter Defining moment ji a tory 12th century CE i. Defining moment Been n cer ee wcthant sitar The Fox sisters 1848 CE seonblwonstedcospund tapes Vinay ced et std plea hey Docancver | a the young Fosters of New York reported hearing + a wae ‘THEME ae ance -soTn CENTURY CE Hameo he es ‘¢Mecomancy hag ot ene thew wea rarer he Sch Svconary Durer ate yey Ghostlore ermato: Looks tot ke the kr orto: Most Ike it harrons me far and wonder: sins the vstaton by the So host ofthe king of Denmark in Shakespeares Hania Seen by mukiple people on multiple cecasions thsi no figment ofthe imagination uta real haunting 2 Before my God, might not this beleve, Without the sensible and true vouch, Of mine own ees Wermight think of medieval and Renaissance people as overly credulous but they knew how to weigh evidence usta well at we do - and they believed in ghosts The medieval period n Europe was profoundly shaped by Christian belie For some the idea of ghosts sat uncornfortaby with that faith. Go satin judgement of al souls ad the ‘90d went to heaven and the bad to ell. This Seems to lave litle tom fr ghosts, because how can the dead retum to arth i they have been consigned toan eternal afterlife by the mighty? Yet ghosts persisted tobe seen and believed in throughout Europe The Bible even instructed fl to erpet the ghosts they saw o Dea frends, donot believe every spit but test the sis to se whether they ae from God because many false prophets have gone out nto the ward” Though the ghostly apparition may bevel they wore tol. it might not realy be who it appeared tobe. A ghest could bea demo in disguise waiting to ensnare the unwar Indeed, because shosts Gods plan. they were nal ikelihood agents of the Devi. ven the great thinkers ofthe Chueh ald whave been vised by ghosts. St Thomas of Aquinas was vised by the spnt ofa fiend ‘who had ded, though Thomas di net know it Jet “Tam in fact dead: bat Thave permission to Vist you because of your merits” He was also said co have been vised by his dead sister who told him that she was in purgatory ad was in reed of his prayers to get into heaven Te was withthe development ofthe ea purgatory that ghosts became Christianised THE HAUNTED A The coming of Christianity left people seeking an explanation for how it was souls continued to visit the Earth with such spooky regularity ‘By the end ofthe 12th century belie in atid lace in the aftrife purgatory, seemed to allow {he wiggle room needed fr ghosts to enter he work. Those in were souls who hac not commited rimes serious enough for ‘ermal punishment bt stil require purification ‘oftheir sin before they could enter heaven Perhaps ghosts were the sprtsof those in has St Thomas str ‘Some ghosts made lar reference to purgatory, such asthe dark shadow ofa Irises who visited her lover to tel him “can be fred from the punishment Iam suffering masses were said for me by good priests" One nonk serving a Byland Abbey in the 15th century wrexe down several Te happened that this man was talking the master ofthe ploughmen and was GE with him inthe field, And suddenly the master ed in great teror and the other man was let struggling with a ghost who fully toe his fgurments. And at last he gained the victory and conjured him. And he being conjured confessed that he hac been a certain canon of Newburgh, and that he had been excommunicated or txrtain silver spoons which he had hidden 2 oetain pce He therefore begged the Iv ‘man that he would goto the place he mentioned and take them away and carry them tothe prior and ask for abolition. And he did 50 and he found te aver rentioned And after abso the ghost he The church profited fom the bli in purgatory a money was often let for masses to be sung forthe dead to speed them out of purgatory. Some pecple even setup chanties buildings specifically Funded fr prayers and i forthe souls The Renaissance sa a flourishing of Ewsopean culture as a love fr antiquity was rediscovered, and people began to question the authoities that coneolled them. It was still an them in the dle well and be reconcled with God quiekly became best, sellers, Ascan be seen from the ghosts in Shakespeare’ plays, ghosts were sil very much in the public imagination. The Protestant Reformation, however. el purgxry with suspicion as sare made to such a state Many Protestants vculd view a ghost a ear work ofthe Devil James lof England in hi hi generally vie few fan Bbleal alison For ae we spi stene, nor tongue can el inthe tin ties, Where ontaria man shal scarcely al hi such things time here Renaissance magi necramancy and the calling forth of spits. Bard Kelley, who worked with Elizabeth hn Dee, claimed he could speak the dowd through a spect stone Fl tradition alko held ont the e sie a church on St Marks Eve re beloved 0 $20. ugh they were, strictly, etches vod in the advisor vo walt at midnight of ghosts th Ghostlore THE WILD silly eae ed rare Peeper ted paneer een eee ore ey cers Pelee ee ere epee ee en Pet eT eT porn er ead Penman reer are ee oe ener en ea ees eet ee eT eee eas creer oe Perr Rear rer ener ranean ne Pee rae cet Perr n rennet Froese orn eee ea eta) pore eeereee t Cnn Poe eee ete en Pree rcertrenr PS entry Petron AN OBSESSION WITH DEATH In an age when ‘resurrection men’ might dig up your corpse for anatomical study, there were those who feared the dead were escaping their graves in less physical form hey ho hata vache edt running but ped back, and no simply part of the Learned men found stuck between their consonant to ht Re yn the witch hunts that pc slaty in the Salem tra it and pa that five housed years have now elapsed since the creation of the werd and sll is Evens shoe ober es ay ora fath in a universe that ran like clockwork Continent - though pe “The Age of Enlightenment saw intellectuals taking on more sceptical attitudes the mocked belief in witches and ghosts alike” and ermal goed, which they were to eb and do. Geo nd this urustal so consulted his about what he shoal do, The minister accompanied Watt to his home ad immediately eed sce ts eget he made thats toy he iti with a stick ~ and foun thatthe ghost publie wing to test pan pray Ghostlore SCRATCHING UD COCK LANE [ GHOSTS Despite the best efforts of sceptics to debunk ghost sightings, many people even today claim to have been visited by those who have died ected to s wold of Nm aCe to the Living ? Re eed herd peratural activity remain perennial > an image to be faked si ns that ae easy to use and ubiquitous feware do With ll this possi level of ccmmodifcation ptt ing ip Got had already tured the ghost into a chlditendly figure. Dead celebrities may reappear hss reanimated images Dead singers can strut and perk stage as holographic ost Scientists have tried to impress on th public the rationality of belie in ghosts. have profesional debunkers like ames Randy ingly to te aval alin the United Sats found 60 percent of those sampled thought that the had seen a ghost. No amount of explanatin aperscr easy to laugh a those in th believed in spectre and ghouls cb that horsanity is just not ready host quite yer Ghostlore yO EU BOARD ee ea enn fetes (eee tormc cs Cerne eerie ee Ear NT Prete se em Tre prererrnnnreer eee Patel som biaierernvehanenneeny Poem aT eet ery ee eee ee ey eee ere) Sere Paeere ney Perrine eatery peer co rece eerteny cpeeeenroere ten semereniyny ene ttt En eee rere And by the moving ofthe planchete answers percent) oceans person maybe directing the movement ere Pere erry Peers mr ere ie Perea Pest orem toting Peer ner Poe ) pe Cette nc Na aa eer Breer Rae TM SmTT oy PUERee Mees nee MOK oO} SORA U eS DCR OR TEs ave CeCe er men Mee SR Ome se TO Uomo Tee te Cees end lanterns down rol, Paper Lanter = o HE DAY OF RE On Radonitsa, or the Day of Rejoicing, Orthodox Russians commemorate those who have passed away with food, gifts and ceremony Written by Catherine Curzon “ Wi THURSDAY OF THE DEAD On Thursday of the Dead, Arab Christians and Muslims alike share a feast to honour the souls of the departed Written by Catherine Curzon ‘nthe Levant. Al anges anally it day beeen the respective n orthodox rhe BUC mum aL eer At the Buddhist Hungry Ghost Festival, spirits receive offerings intended to send them back to the afterlife without harming the living Written by Catherine Curzon i SAMHAIN Halloween may have largely replaced it, but Samhain is still one of the most important festivals in the Pagan year Written by Ben Gazur ambain, fling on 31 October, the last of the thce harvest Festal celebrate by rodent also marks the tu oetuen from the spt real, Samhain was the ‘ume when carte and ocher and pre (On Samhain the departed the ie in the hearth was allowed to burn out while people worked inthe fils. Tat night banfies were it to watd of evi and ie was taken fom these to world and those of the Present the festivities of Sam dressing up and disguise (house to beg wood to be added to the comma revels carved lanterns frm turnips to see how Samhain influenced the rate people re often held the poor ts also atime to introduce me ‘rand mammary hs ng been community Samhain can be the rope ‘on tings that have ended inthe pat yea, a well ash hopes for wht may come in the net CUE LY cee kes E THREE AYS OF ALLHALLOWTIDE Though Halloween is one of the most famous and widely celebrated holidays, it’s actually part of a three-day celebration known as Allhallowtide Written by Catherine Curzon The whispts of what ec huding Day be ppon THE DEAD Mexico's iconic Day of the Dead, or Dia de Muertos, is renowned for its colourful and lively celebration of lost loved ones Written by Catherine Curzon he Day ofthe Dead isan annual muitiday taditonally te flowers ofthe dead nat to mention the Public holiday that s celebrated across deceased favourite refreshments and treasured personal Mexico and by people of Mexican heritage belongings. As the days draw on the festval-gpers, fis intended to share prayers and stories about the deceased in an hon far fom mourn here not of sadness, but oy and the belie acasion, and instead known for its colour and that Laughter and happiness wall encourage the sous ofthe dead to jon the ugh offerings 5 sumed by attendees. days and nights ofthe fest betieve thatthe spits ofthe The Day of the Dead has been celebrated in Mexico for dead have already dined cn cntuies and eflects the Mexican belie that death isthe ofthe e more past of the natural cele th 90 the food no all across the wert. Th must go through. Before the Spanish conquest of Mexico I ny urtonal in the lth century, the hob celebrated nearly —_vaefor the ling, summer, but asthe years passed. it shifted in the calendar The origins ofthe Day to-concide withthe Christian celebration of Allhallowtde, of the Dead ean be found and is naw marked for duce days from 3st October to 2nd in anclent festivals that "November. Although northern Mexico taditonally didnt. han 3000 celebrate the festival du to observing its own indigenous st notably an tons, bythe 20th century the Day ofthe Dead was a pationside even nthe three days in question, family and fiends come ther atthe graves of thelr loved ones in the split of eoicing Here they construct bil pate called ofends which ae decorated wth sugar sclls people spend the nights at the grav ‘or calaveras -and specially writen poems. They layer too, making the most af the chance © the akars with flowers inchuding Mexican mariglds reconnect with ther los loved ones. Hanning the rious busines, and on the thie days in question, many Day of the Dead a Ghostlore When Native Americans performed the Ghost Dance, they believed that the ritual would summon the spirits of the dead for the good of all their people Written by Catherine he Ghost Dance, or Nadia, “men toll vas the bei th © when US soldiers fred upon the Lakcta peopl st Native American old call es id ‘killing and injuring unde when « \. “Séances can be traced , back to the 3rd century, and even then they were | , A I | epee . ——— U pen Séances are widely seen as showmanship and hoaxes by many, but the origins of the practice are rooted in religion. Enter Spiritualis! Written by Poppy-Jay Palmer he word ‘séance’ comes diectly fom the neh séance, meaning sex an from the Olt French allpaté he heats of non belivers. ceetinet Rete rst Lady Mary Tod essons in the White House whi hey were extremely high profile by her husband President Abraham Lincoln aswell aa Tru Investigating the paranormal ESTIGATING THE PARANORMAL The paranormal has fascinated people for centuries, from bumps in the night to crackling EVPS. In the technological 21st century, ghost-hunting is more popular than ever Written by Catherine Curzon \Warrens are both deceased, the ims based on thet carer shave no sign of topping ‘Of course where there Paranormal investigations today use sss ths forebears called on table taping tomake contact. Thete aye even companies devoted to supplying technological fevers, there ae sceptics oo. One ofthe most famous and tenacious is indoubtey James anal, founder which is devted monitor temperature proving that the spikes, and the al paranormal s nothing eT important EMF meters but fiction. From orbs to Ea se investigators lait stances and everything in between these beadline grabbing sceptics ane interrogate paranormal evidence using gorous Scenic mths, For more than SO years Rand offered $1 milion to anyone who ‘ould demonstrate parancrmal phenomena in aboraory condition. Inthe haf ceotuy that he challenge was open, and despit 3 thotsand candidates coming forward nobody bt spits case fluctuations in the electromagnetic ela nalyse at a haunted location, and they watch the digital meters for anomalies closely Soepies and investigators ake admit that fluctuations can be of eter thi including mobile phones and radio signals, but to some ghosthuners they provide positive proof o aneaby ‘hantom For thove who ike to hear Creer een) rote and playing bac ea Perera ae a couple of technological options. One isthe spit box, scans through AM and M frequencies, supposedly llrng the dead rough th radio stations efter faving the voices picked ‘open to question More word in Bectronic Voie Phen ss EVPS These vie th o communal tate Ofcourse east spoken word, sprit bo om the other se are sou ena, better known edngs in which an investigator wil ask questions aloud, leaving pauses fora reply. They are then played back 1d the audlo combeel for any hidden responses that may be buried deep in the apparent silence VPs ined popularity in the 19506 to Friedl Suzgenson, who aimed to hay captured the voles of deceased family whe recording brdsong. In the 1970s Latvia intellectual Konstantin Raudive claimed that his own recordings many of ihe gibberish se explained away the ‘hat spits would chang middle ofa sentence or even speak ‘ack, mispronounc sibling words in therefor werent convinced and ‘questioned why histor Figures suchas Hider snicate, His ries rl deny spoke Latvian hen they hadnt nie oddities Raucive answered that spits wore capable cf identity theft to, adopung famous names to stand out fom the pack Mach ofthe technological search for ghosts akes place in a world of sat, where seemingly random pattems and sounds are analysed in investigator's requests anti aibe ‘move in response t0 a or white nose that can be mixed words emerge Yet technology is prone to lure and manipulation, and humans are ‘ven to wish fullmen, so desperate to obtain proof of the paranormal that they 1 consequential coincidena he possibility of dishonesty, and investigators oping to make their name have been accused of deliberate fakery, particulaly when it comes 1 paranormal The baly gail for psychic investig course, a gerne photograph ofa phantom. Since Wiliam Hf Mumier crested aoa sin photo in the 19 ven to capture the real thing They have sceeede in photographing everything rom fisored monks a Newby Chureh to phantom ‘cemetery mourners, whilst even Google Maps 2s got in onthe act. with users periodically senate rn where pho as fale to prove thatthe imi have been manipulated there’ a degre required when consdering them as evi Alte all even if photographer claims that the fame when the taken, isnot impossible that somea hhave wandered unseen into the shot or colluded vith the photographer in a deliberate hoe recent years the advent of gal has seen rise in picture dots nich ave sal ating aera or fm. tn are the fist he vise on hat the nifestaton, ut thei ually capeuring specks of dust o inset hunting are quik te ors are usually ams Investigating the paranormal srs thar any at ein fa there canbe a hast of mare earthly reas fist, ncuing adi human intervention or simple ref ‘Without controled scientific conditons, they s inve mite oducting them When technology als investigators tur to tried and tested methods and chief amongst isthe psychic medkim, With no special ums vist a location and attempt act with the spits bo walk th its, TV shows such une ave made such investistions lar with particpants joining 3 and mediums inthe hope of seeing mate hee to say Pethaps one day mand, Pethaps, how paranormal poof isnt about the mn sel bt about the journey AAMC UT VMOU Dae oe En glued to our sofas Pranormal investigations make fr popula Pe Tae eer pore ee er ais Pommamereen ays Aree ener eye Renter nernry ‘akery, when he was apparent ticked by Paneer ne en nen Eocene perenne Prone) ee ee honenents Ceres eer en nennt ever ene errata Pai eran Serer) cet ees reaper entrar nemenrnttrst eee hence neat Pappiereereeogrow ter see] Emer reren tt ari Lone eer etn Cee eee Tee Pere earea nto ai a eer ee) Eieeeeererer eae ey Perey Pree ne rt cy eet 44 Ghostly lights 48 The Wild Hunt 50 The headless 54 Phantom coaches 56 Terror of the seas 60 Doppelgangers 62 The Devil's Footprints cod ee eee ee as ESTEE "| . a nie @ PV ty suid GHOSTLY LIGHTS Even though electric lights have lit up many dark places that ghosts may lurk there are many reports of apparitions who bring their own light Written by Ben Gazur {easy to forget st hw unnauray m weil este righ oui alive with of street lights. Stars and planets compete wit those and so ae hardy ne Wisp are pethaps the best known and commen form of ghost ight. Por hundreds of by Hitodama- ball of energy In Wales th tthe Wisp was sen as airy light trying to hare the mn thelr path and into a swamp. indeed then, these strange igh ate lnimately cle about linked to unnatural sources be in no doubt tha hat is vale caled ‘Wil othe Wisp” Ghostly lights Miswtcaser od peel @ PV iety suid FOR THE MEXT (20K YOU AREIN LAND of damp ar shift B depen In 840 one obser ofthe Will the THIS UNSOLVED ST ELMO'S FIRE their protector. Ancient Chinese mariners also (oa blessing from the ame to round up mem tribe He was brotal east the It century CE when recorded it ‘Stars [his name f make their appearance both at seen a light in that frm ng watch by : and when, a year ater, arived to ind out wha sound. These lights do sometin evening, est on men’ head 00d ome (On land St Elmo's Fire can be partcuan startling At Pikes Peak in Colorado, observers our witha fie that does nat The breath of animals storms it may well b Elms fire. thors tink that may be caused by the release of methane rotting under the water thats stom approaches hike avast LIGHTS AND LOCATIONS Nine miles outside the tow of Mana, Texas, THE PHANTOM FIRE SHIP OF BAIE DES CHALEURS in the Baie des Chaleurs on the coast of Canad, strange aco ight s sometimes seen on the hattan, often Gos igs appear in many cultures and ae jai ts appearan ich are sad to ver just above the ein 501 Portuguese saver vegetation or zoer around, splitting apart and Ghostly lights HARPERS= ray & ore rem “Each year thousands of people descend on the Mekong River to observe the Naga Lights. These balls of reddish light emerge from the water and rise hundreds of meters into the air before vanishing” MODERN EXPLANATIONS Sometimes in great numbers, others they last fr over au hour, They might to view thai inexplicable gh. ‘bob peacefully in place ot charge furious Some think the lights xe erally generated from the earth as the . pal legend att vio has a high propetion of quart ithe ih the lights to the Phaya Naga, a lant snake sald ound that can generate charge through ofthese mysterious lights, though would be a to live at the bottom of the river piaoeletric effect as the rock spt under 00d idea ook out for them in the dak ierearen WILD HUNT Often seen as a portent of tragedy, the legend of the Wild Hunt tearing through the skies struck fear into the hearts of our ancestors ‘Written by Catherine Curzon it Hunts fame inte a pean fll, with every Wi rey dogs baying and hurting horns ain anal bele the hunters were bli the lest pits of| sunt the detles had become devoted himself rides atthe be ur wa . 3s much as superstition, 2 of tragedy fom tere strms and “Seeing the Wild Hunt was believed to herald some sort of tragedy, from war and pestilence to death” ——S oT SOoOoEOSrOST- THE NRA. HORSEMAN The story of this headless fiend pervades modern urban SS SCe neh Ties elias mes once nse] ome IT Ie) TUCRUMTU Deon ne RRC ced De etd Fearne ent et een erences Deen Pye cas erent at et ated ee ee eed eee ees Poe ety ee einer eet ey Pee ee ets) ee ca eee Ree a eee Pr ee Pie eee ets ‘one that leaves anger vengeance and death ree econ ed Dae aN een nee ed ee ad ee ey See ener Peey eees eaee A cannonball in a nameless war, who roams. ced ee eee es reeds ecto tne rs ener ar ay See eae ary ce eel no Cay pee ae along the way he is chased by the Headless ee nearer er) ee eet eee Teen e nts Seed See a aad ee ee ee ae ke teen oer ete ar en ‘beheaded by acannonbal inthe Battle of White eee (f 1795, Another Dutch folktale tls ofa headless horseman wio appeared at Tarrytown, New York- again at Halloween, Is thought that Inving moved to the region in his younger years and woud have been well are ofthe local story and legends. Irving’ storyeling lls nited ng with a boleve that Irving poet The Wild Hunt y Goted Barger water Seat in 1796, rooted in fhe Germanic tradition of the Wid Hun. Indeed 2 ale from Saxon by the Brothers Grimm tls how the Wild Hlanssman himsel God ined di lEving and Scot were fen an unlikely sonar ving himself was of Cornish and Scotish descent and eof human bones somite some datk deed. Hans lagenteue and the parphemaliaof is aheadless horseman from Saxony, whose tale is elated by the Brothers Grmm. Here the ory influenced fon death sad hat ravelling in Brain when he the rider tops his fiend tls a woman ot collecting coms of his rote the Fac tale, Many heals cut anameineo the wicked life asf his fate is his ust punishment ‘aim the Ish Dullan isthe hight andthe chosen victim Yet headless horsemen are nt ist a al headless horseman, and the nly The death coach European phenomena; they also appear ins ‘Same belie ppears across One Indian tale from Fyzabac ns inthe bloodhitst n,——_ghostly army of erly silent pre-Christian a tha appears after dark. sid t Sayyad Silt and people ae Tt ides black hese and ofthe ing outat nigh hern india puman spine as a whip. He holds nis head below a Blkling Hall in Norfolk tells aght a sn, cutting of ris ether arm, with skin resembling maully on the anniversary of her death, May 6th, Anne his head. Yet the body continued fighting, picke cheese all the while looking into the ight with isbrowght ther birthplace, head in ip. byra—_up his head an ead the army oh which ‘ear vision, Some say t shines ike a lantern swallowed them up. nese legends tell of Huang Dt, the on gendary Yellow Emperer, who baled 3 atrage ple by four heacles in the darkness. He cten drives coach pulled and driven by a headless horseman by ele Bodhar- it with skull containing candle 0 rn beheaded, the not msefto the is head hi the head sian forced himse nd cari on ighting smn. Ahead becoming, porseman i sail to gllop along bee mitrs one ofthe eldest English examples of and Skipsea in the East Ring of Yorkshire, Thee n and the Green K Sy those who have after decapitation, Martyrs who suffer this fat ret here he often prs ee ee a a “Those killed by beheading are often considered restless spirits. Headless ghosts abound in British folklore, from the barghuest of Yorkshire, to Coliunn Gun Cheann (the Headless Trunk) ” BUCS ey NNN EN DMvelh eA UCT BW Cr mrt Cee eC ot to unimaginable CSU TST utese nee It’s not just houses that can be haunted; empty highways still bustle with the sight of phantom coaches carrying their long-dead passengers Written by Catherine Curzon @ PV y tule uiey Sightings of mysterious, ghostly vessels have occurred throughout history, and innumerable words, both spoken and written, have been spent discussing these shiver-inducing encounters Written by Willow Winsham he term “host hip has come to deserbe myserious vessel T ue ghost ship in every sense of the erm, an appartion with overtly ‘suporatural origins Sightings of such ships are often taken to be portents of doom, heralding misfortune for those unlucky ‘enough to see them, There is often talk ofa curse the crew of such ships doomed to sal for fetemity die to some misceed, These ghostly ships also tend to appear on the anniversary of the tragedy that led them tobe cused nthe frst place Pethaps the most famous ghost ship of legend isthe Fiving Dutchman, and there are very few viho have not head the name ofthis fearful wonder According ta legend, the Dutchman, fen under full all appears in the disance often during a storm. is crewed by ghosts and the vessel is doomed to never be able to make ar, duet some tebe rime committed ‘many years before by the captain or crew. lest version ofthe Dutchman legend sd othe late Ith century, acceding tried and fled to make pert, 1d Hope and wth no plat to guide them, fel victim tothe tempestuous John MacDonald reported in his wring In bad weathey, the sip would appear ore This basic legend soon developed intoa rote foreboding version. withthe Mated sip Tooking as iit would run down thse who sae it By the end ofthe lth century the ghostly ship was now known asthe Flying Dutchman, Further mutation ofthe story introduced the ‘doomed cre element because of commiting an unspeakable crime they were cursed sil until they had atoned for their ei. The Flying nan continues to grow in popularity, and recs are made to her in numeous works of was made by the furure King George V of England himself, On July 188 the prince, his brother, and tuto, all witnessed, ving Terror of the seas East India Company. Fokke was able to ‘the Caleuche was known to disguise itself a Oe een ccc A ese ee Peay eco mee ae contender is the substantial wife, took control of the vessel. Oblivious, the Le EYE OF THE BEHOLDER LS ee eee ee ern Peet een ee ae ce Ae ee et em eT ey mire erent ny cerry ere ren eee eet ee ay ee ene ne nee en ea) eed ‘utlandishness. Among them Gere ee ered Ce ed Po ey Perera gtr mm ea ee Seer ee se ene TL ed Peters tenn rr on nna ae mE OO OTT een ete ee Se AE EST ST STE oe Pe ney ere Pevenc mnccerT Peer See rn perry a repost neeet tee a ee Se ee of the crew were al as they should be. The ly ting of note was that the hfebos was Iso missing. The enquiry that flowed failed had happened: the missing re never found. Speculation ranged fo ‘tiny to insurance frau to pracy, but non of these theanes proved satisfactory. tis hardy sich mundane theo ray othe mee fantastic such as paranormal Imervention or aling prey oatack by sian squid Like mast good legends, that ofthe Mary Celeste gu Accordingly it wa reported thatthe table had bee left with a real ust served the food stil almost warm ven discovered, inceasng the mystery nd immediacy ofthe ake. A lot of the later addons ad factual inaccuracies can be traced tothe story J Habakuk Jephson’ State viten by Arthur Conan Dx According ta sina sonesian (Qurang Medan meta tersbe fate in 1947, though to this dy ts unclear what happened ever whether the ship existed inthe fs place Aecoringto reports, distress signal was picked up from the ves, ut 1 the | hen help artved it was to find everyone on board dead, Details such as fact their faces wore frozen in expressions that all evidence vanished, asthe Medan exploded and sank without race before it coud befaken to shore only ado "The Princess Augusta encountered disaster in the lath century. The Augusta a British vessel saling to Philadelphia from Rotterdam, was beset with eificulies fom the outset a contaminated water supply lento the death half the crew including the captain and over 200 passengers After yet more misfrtune, the ‘hip was wrecked during a snowstorm on 2 December 1738 ouside Rhode (sland. A maln feature ofthis legend isthe belie that a female passenger named or unnamed, refused to eave the ship as went down, Her sanity gone, she yas lef tober ft. Her screams were heard not nly asthe ship vanished beneath the waves, The te fate not entirely certain. However but can stil be heard en occasic. the Augusta according to legend on the anniversary ofthe rec 3 ghostly ight can be seen, known asthe Palatine Light This the ghost of the August ansformed ino the Platine by John Greeneat tier in his poet ofthe sa st ships both old and ns to fascinate and testy n equal measure jth many books and arcs dedicated 0 the tie each year Given the unabating fascination humankind has fo the unknawn nd mysteries of all sorts of which aos chips re undoubtedly the finest example the wll font potatoe) pee re Stories of doppelgangers have been told for centuries, but are they supernatural beings, omens of disaster or simply a strange biological quirk? Written by Catherine Curzon the folowing is sem aba personification of death tse he ner for ofthe person @ PV uiety suid 11855, the Devil came to Dev ‘he night of 8 February, dr ‘unusually harsh winte a snowstorm ‘Hankted the county. waking up the next morning in towns ike Exmouth, Topsham, Dawlish and Teignmouth di not ind this a beautiful sight, however Why? Because a mysterious tral of footprints that closely resembled hoot prints had appeated. papers ofthe time reported i, these re ‘the fotmarks of some strange and mysterious animal endowed with the power of ubiquity, as the footprins wore to be seen inal kinds of unaccountable places -on the tops of houses and narrow walls in gardens and courtyards, enclosed by high walls and palings, s wel in open fields” For many locals the explanation was obvicus: these were the footprints of Devi himselt T INTS When mysterious footprints appeared in the snow one night, local people knew there could be only one culprit — the Devil had come to town Written by Ben Gazur ‘The Times corespendent remarked that these footprints looked as if they belonged 10 biped rather than to some fourleeaed farm animal Many ofthe tack looked a if they had approached dhe docrstey ore the nsterios Visitor retreated. Constemtion Ww so grea that one ea drew attention sted that actually crested by he was not convinced by s made merty with the event One xeter paper said "Weecan' pretend to give an explanation of his tysterous affair, but all we knows that if this Devil has taken into is head to havea steple chase in Devon, he has ‘manifested very peculiar taste in choosing such inclement season fr his sport” ‘Soon thoee wih a more sclentifi ening were keen to explain the mystery away. The Famous profesor Richard Owens calmed that several badgers were the culprits ethers though umping mice might lave simiar matks, One of the most novel explanations was that they were leftby a balloon that was traling its shackles ong the ground, The m hoofed or shod animal ‘thought unlikely duet the length ofthe tacks the tenble weather andthe pins spacing, “The 1855 Devils Footprins therefore remain unexplained. Intriguingly only five yea another rack of Devils Fotptnts appeared in the vilageof Rowley Regis - though of a quite Aitferent ype. Here the fests were human shaped but appeared to have been burned into the ground by red-hot feet. MVC aview annie) SPOOKS 68 The church grim ‘70 Female ghosts and phantoms ‘76 The Black Lady of Bradley Woods 78 The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall 80 The Grey Lady of Spring Wood 82 The Lady in Red 84 Spring Heeled Jack 86 Gef the talking mongoose 88 The Unlucky Mummy 2 Ryu tee I ed Fug CHURCH GRIM Meant to be the protector of ancient churches, the grim can nonetheless instill fear even in the innocent Witten by Willow Winsham he church grim sa curious but one ofthe most commonly sighted isa doing valiant battle against the strand vase, sort of spit, acting as Tage, lack dog. These spine chilling creatures the spits ofthe dei lest at sea. Unable to est ‘often appeared during inclement weather, the their bodes denied a proper burial. these spits huchyarl PeentinEnash blaster som-er righ acting tthe tenor fought to ener the churchyard, he a hg and Scandinavian flor, the ofathing sight ofthis dar guardian 1 keep them cu ecified crucial oe to protect The Yorkshire grim not only provided Ales fearsome but equally powerful variation unruly and sacrilegious or protection, but could also act as an ominous ss that ofthe church amb, Sld to have be ld seek to cause damage there. portent It was believed tht they could foretell buried under the church fou it the ext death to occur signalling the fac by lami - meant to represent Christ -could be sen : both inthe church and in the yard cate f he later, twas th ofa chillin Kesj grimhasa 1s chayge fom | ate? ris said that they val buried alive within re the part the foundations of the church, on some cases, the spit ofthe fst person to be buried fortellng of ‘thin the churchyard. Animals used. such _‘kirkegrim or Swedish he idea thatthe spr ofthe person ried last foundation sacrifices include hoses, pgs, boars out Not only protecting their churchyard fom in the krkyard was bound to preset it but only nd dogs, Sightings of gris take many forme, the usual vandalism, they could also be found unt the next person tobe inered takes over Seren Peto Peco eae netod Mie andits graveyard i ey Ria Vcc nee eRe Rey Eyy cose Me tare lie oor MMU orL en Semen blustery, storm-ridden night adding to the terror of catching sight of it” eect at The church grim 2 Spectres & spooks Rieter! ieee md Pecan oe Prd oo FEMA SHONTS AN PHANTOMS In the pantheon of ghosts and apparitions, female phantoms such as the White Lady, the banshee or even La Llorona occupy a particularly famous place Written by Catherine Curzon buried treasure, wit each bringing with ts peculiar dy st appeared in cident, the bereaved 2 Spectres & spooks an heartbroken mother fang herself after her child t certain death. Today, her ghostly frm ‘wander the battlements i 2 serch for he ost infant Bereavement i popular explanation for the appearance of White Ladies, and in lends ‘County Gor woman’ spectre hasbeen spotted amon the ruin of Charlesort. endless walking walls that no longer exist. Legend has i thather husband returned to is sentry post the cay after thet rtous weeding and el aleep on ‘ry, He was executed or dereliction of €uty and his heartbroken widew stil mous centuries after both ther deaths. Before the fr fel ti (fuse soldiers often reported sightings ofthe phantom abd toda, withthe stein ruins, she has wandered further afeld and been spotedo& the streets of the nearby town of Kinsale Not all White Ladies ae mourning a loved ‘one Some were the fare joined in their haunting by a faithful ‘companian, & White Lady and her ghostly og stl trough the rounds of Durham rperiey Hall, where they were struck by a camiage and killed whilst out for a walk. Th peaceful spirits ae a farcry fom the White Lady of Beeferd, Yorkshire, who darts across busy road infront of tried divers. rumours are tbe belived, she has e to blame for a numberof serous accidents Not tobe outdne, Ameria highways have boon terrorised by their own lads in whit, and they occasional stray int the archetype ofthe phantom htchbuker won ltoana, Pennsyivani, the White Lady of Wopsy was led alongside her hushand in a highway cash. Toy she searches fo him stile the road ina manifest esly wandering along “American White Ladies and the tragedies that supposedly created their legends have been reported for centuries” SOS SE ‘motets have picked up fem time to time, beieving ber to be athe, Needs 05, wnhen they reach thelr destination thelr passenger Isawhere tobe seen On High meanwhile, the Sik Lady howls with trying laughter a the point where she was thw from her horse and Kile instantly. Peshaps ‘mast infamous of ll oadede pha Resurrection Mar, who is believed to haun Acher Avenue alongside Resurrection Cemetary in Jstc, Minos Dressed ina white party frock, Mary i far cry fom the tational White dy, and she’s keen to hth it to is When hapless drivers sto she des with them In silence fra while befor vanishing from their car Legend has i that Mary was killed by ahitandsun driver as she walked home from a dancehall She as beon appearing to motorists since the 1930s a efforts bave been made ti connect he o one ofthe people wo ae buried in Resurretion Cemetery Though Resurrection Mary is modem sor of spectre. American White Ladies and the tragedies that supposedly created their finished decades 3 and oer Mary a legends have been reported for centuries, On the veranda of her former home nV White Lady of Avenal anxiously awaits the return of her husband, who died in the Civil War, She has a kindred spit in every sense ~ in Rochester, New York, where a bereaved mather who died ofa broken heart, endlesly searches for her murdered daughter he wedding dress clad woman who drifts through Tolamarto cemetery in St Augustine Frda, means, never hada chance to have a child She dropped dead on er way to the tar and her sprit can stil be seen ti hn the chapel and er groom, With many history and floret call upon, iia the ed ratlessiy Europe’ White Ladies ae often somewhat move tadional than Resuntection Mary in het 2oth centr dancing shoes, Take for instance ite Lay of Haapsalu Castle in Estonia, In life she amc into the eactle in the gue ‘of achaitboy in order tobe wit het lover, a gyman. When she was discovered, she walled up alive as punishment an left perish To this day, whenever a full August Moon uminates the wielows she ean be glimpsed peering through the lass oping tobe reunited ith her lest ove. The White Lady of Sehless Ausselin Germany was once a princess, married toa brutal prince. When he caughs her inthe rms of he ue lve he had his wife walled up with encugh food and ater to as until he returned fom militar engagement. Instead he was killed on the tutte. With nobody aware of his wife’ Female ghosts and phantoms her lng black ai, porcelain skin and white dessa she oniginate in Folktales of mysterious and seductive female snows ose skin was ice cold and was believed to ing tragedy 1o anyone win encountered het Some beleve that she is the spit of winter tlt. whilst other versions ofthe legend claim horrible ate the house was closed up woman, who i as deadly as she is nd she perished in her prison chaning, Yulé-onna cls he Now and then, Whit Ladi yas ‘itis with her ee breath and wen interven ster female ghosts pushes them from cif ed froma similar fate or simply ‘Sometimes she simply freezes take care of them The White hem to death where they ay of Mina, n Mala sand, Like their East Asin the spr ofa bride who BNE counscrparts White Ladies ‘murdered by her jealous lve EMRE the Netherlands are not wo She appears to children to wish poo tnfled with, Known as ‘Vouwen contrast with dei deathly pale skin. This. flement s common to Thal White Lady stories tog In which vengeful spins of ladies in whe remorse the ving pans Yuktonna has become a familiar figure thanks to her recent mute in wit; these malevolent ceatre abect children, ch ike fine i cote fll and ate a cose relative tastope oth Isheraked by the Maid haunt th the banshee, bringing hey haunt Catastroph psof Ul he legend tells that a young woman named Bulzhuuai Duuhat committed suid afte being forced to marry a brutish mar she didnt love. After he death she joined the Maidens of le, ghosts ofl eated maidens who sought vengeance. They srooms-o-be and tempted them with thet beauy, before dragging thei souls dawn to the underworld LA LLORONA OF MEXICO TR CR EL Ro a) SES ee sent to find her son’s soul Reena eet ed Pereenrieeeerennenn Tea Perret trees Porc renters Pererienrenn enone any era eee eerie eee Persian ns ae eee reat er ete Parenter recreate Perea sanet ey bodies, but the curent had already swept Penner acest g Paecner ener amare ee nett cae erred rere ny $ Spectres & spooks sea Pt UN NaN NEWSTEAD rer er eee eee city eel Eero een pecrerepemrs ener as Pebresrernemer mercies Peete ears Pecenree meetncenesy Perce ee etd Peet ree Parra eee? eae nee cif some sis were reputed toca the sous oftheir victims, others baa less handson apprcach when came to haunting (One of theses the banshee an nish spit ‘often a fry - recognisable by her bloodshot eye off an slight build, but most ccmmonty cenit by her blondurdling wall. Her keening cry rings ‘ut at night and foretell fa death inthe family ‘of those who eat he that Ireland Some legends cl ofthe anclent Milesian fami wether own famiial banshee others be a banshee wi. Common to al the bel jeve that any unfortunate can hear “Not every ghost wears white, of course, and the Lady in Red is said to be the ghost of a prostitute or murdered good-time-girl, or simply a woman who was excessively vain” that her cry prtends tagedy.n Scotland, the banshee has her own regional variant. Shei the Washer atthe Fodor bean-nighe, traditionally believe tobe the spirit ofa woman who died in culdhood, in son Washer has enormous breasts, which she tows back over er shoulders to keep them out of her way a she works, Should someone spot herand take hold of he breast. she wil tl him ‘often than the secrets of his hearts desi. M rat however, the woman is rlesly srubbing Doodstains fom a piece of armour or cothing and those who own the garments ate doomed to ost wears white, of course and Reds said tobe the ghost ofa rere good ime gil or simply as excesaely vain. Though White Ladies are often mournful thet ‘counterpart is the oppose. Friendly and she i often associated with an entertainment vere or other public place. Red Ladies are particularly common to the Uned States. and the Red Lady of Huntingdon College, student ‘who always wore red, even spied a sprting event in her mime otls ae popular vers for Red Laties, and Charleston’ former ante’ Hotel hosts the ghost of prostute Nettie Di was stuck iy ighning whist wearing ber stnetive gow In Alabama, another Lady in Red haunts Ral Hotel where she as hing from abalony to her death, From Chicago t San Franelsco and beyond hotels beste wih the re-clad phantoms of funloving women who meta violent end. North ofthe border. Toronto's abandoned Lower Bay trast station has a resident eyeess Lady in Red who used to teri passengers wine she glided above the platform, Some petifed that chey ations environs Red refused 10% Les have spread terror across the Atlantic oo such a Leap Castle's Lain Red who wanders the comidars catching a the man wie kl het In Bal, meanwhile, the Das pint of young woman who died ager, searching fo wath ther the ten moe famous South A La Lorona the Weep kjre. Condemned to forever walk the Fath Female ghosts and phantoms Sa Ss their official wedding ceremony took place, Today Peet Anne periodically returns to Marvell Halland iets wanders Yewtree Walkin the grounds, search a forthe fusband who betrayed ber She is thought to walk the hallways at Windsor Caste to, and regulaly appear in what has became known 35, Anne Boleyis window inthe Dean Clastes Tes probably not surprising that one of An favourte hunts i the Tower of London, the ace where she met her death. Pethaps the ‘ost famous sighting ofthe unfortunate w as made by General Dundas in 1864, who sa woman in white approach an unsuspecting ourtyard guard. The guard ordered her to hal, yet dhe wornan kept coming unt he tied to push her back. Instead, he rar ne The tried guard fainted c and was accused by supers of abandoning his post peneral Dundas testified atthe guards eal that he too ad seen the apparition in the courtyard and the unfortunate man was aaquited, Yet despite her unhappy fe and violent

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