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Ghost-related posts every Friday. Extracts from ghostly stories; artwork; poetry; folklore; haunted places, accounts of hauntings - all will be welcome! Please use hashtag #PhantomsFriday for reposts and to join the feed. Run by @theghostmonk.bsky.social
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mhurban.bsky.social
Not a new read but a re-read because I love this book so much and I never get tired of it.
Hell House, by Richard Matheson.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...
If you like ghost stories, this is a must-read.
#FridayReads #BookSky #AmReading #horror #ghosts #PhantomsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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mhurban.bsky.social
Parador de Cardona
In Cardona Castle, about 100 km from Barcelona, there is a four-star parador with wonderful views and unbeatable surroundings. It is a place to stay and relax—except in room 712 (1/3)
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy
In central Europe, the souls of the dead would often dwell beneath hills and mountains - and the living might stumble across their abodes by accident.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Goatherd_Boy_in_the_Illgraben
The Goatherd Boy in the Illgraben
wiki.sunkencastles.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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missscarlett2024.bsky.social
(From Muncie Press, 1882) It's a matter of opinion! 😆#ghosts #PhantomsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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21rosa.bsky.social
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kellyamangan.bsky.social Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · Nov 20
#FolktaleWeek! Day 3 Prompt: BLIGHT
The Fear Gorta is the "man of famine" in Irish legend, a phantom of the starvation brought on by the potato blight, and by the brutal colonial oppression by the British.
#folktaleweek2024 #folktaleweek2024BLIGHT
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A skeletal man in tattered clothes holding out his hands for alms.
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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drpaullee.bsky.social
Testwood House near Southampton has a pair of terrifying phantoms
even though the basic story of a servant murdered by another employee after embarking on an affair is something of a cliche in ghost circles!

#phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings

Ghost Map Info: www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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whatters2.bsky.social
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
M.R.James

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🎨Les Edwards
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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missscarlett2024.bsky.social
The Round School House in Bibai City, Hokkaido, Japan (1906) was an elementary school from the 1940s-70s. Stories about the nearby woods include lights, shadows
blood curdling screams & demonic sounds.There are stories of people going to the ruins and never
returning. #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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markseifert.bleedingcool.com
One of the more interesting #phantomsfriday news items I've run across, this from Illustrated Police News (of Boston), Sept. 10, 1874.

13-year-old John Nolan of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was plagued by an angry, stone-throwing phantom only he could initially see. More details in alt text.
An engraving from Illustrated Police News (of Boston), Sept. 10, 1874 shows two men with rifles and a frightened boy confronting a glowing, ghostly figure in a thicket of bushes at night. The apparition appears as a tall, bearded old man with long, flowing hair, emerging from dense undergrowth and lifting one arm two throw a stone. Stones and debris lie scattered around the men’s feet, and a small cabin stands in the distance. The scene conveys fear and surprise as the armed search party reacts to the supernatural ghost that has been tormenting a local boy. The article recounts a reported ghost near New Martinsville, West Virginia. John Nolan, a thirteen-year-old boy, begins experiencing strange phenomena in early spring. While he first only sees the phantom near him around his house, the matter soon progresses as the phantom hurls stones at him no matter where he stands, inside the house, in the yard, or in the nearby fields. Only the boy can see his attacker, an old gray-haired man who repeatedly appears and vanishes. As the disturbances intensify, neighbors become alarmed and organize an armed party, thinking this the work of some mortal attacker. But stones rain down on them as well, seemingly from nowhere. Eventually the men see the ghostly figure themselves, an elderly man in blue trousers and a loose shirt, with long white hair. The apparition repeatedly eludes the party, disappearing behind bushes and reappearing elsewhere. Their guns prove useless, as bullets either miss or the figure vanishes. For two days the men pursue the ghost without success. A strange smoke later rises from bushes “from whence the stones came,” adding to the mystery. After multiple failed attempts to corner the spectral old man, the community abandons the investigation. The article concludes that while the events sound incredible, the story was vouched for “by citizens well known in the neighborhood,” leaving the haunting unresolved and the ghost’s identity unknown.
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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cwreeve.bsky.social
The Haunted Room, Painted at a Farmhouse on Exmoor

🎨 by Alfred James Munning, circa 1950

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A woman sits on a four poster bed, mouth agape in horror as a pale apparition points at her. On the floor, a man looks up in shock.
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
Unfortunately, something's just come up, so I shall be an invisible presence on #PhantomsFriday for a while. But I promise to repost like mad when I'm back! Meanwhile, you can just follow the feed using the hashtag and clicking 'Latest'. But then, as Nigel Molesworth had it: 'Any fule kno that.'
theghostmonk.bsky.social The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · Apr 7
Sir Goddard Oxenbridge, a former lord of ancient Brede Place in #Sussex, is said to have been a cannibal with a taste for eating babies. Eventually, the local children had the courage to gang up and overpower him - and then sawed him in half! Kids, eh?
#legend #folklore #horror #tradition #FolkTale
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
This drawing by John Hookham from Harry Price's 'Poltergeists Over England' is intended to illustrate that poltergeist activity often centres round young girls. But I find it an especially creepy image. One can almost imagine the girl turning round to welcome it...
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts
Drawing of a little girl seated at a mirror and tying bows in her hair. Behind her looms an ominous shadow. Presumably the girl can see it in the mirror but seems weirdly unconcerned.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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drpaullee.bsky.social
An interesting account about Narford Hall in Norfolk. The owner of the house was Andrew Fountaine who died 10 days after this visit to his property in 1997.

#phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
Llanrahaedr-yng-Nghinmeirch, #Denbighshire, (which is easier to pronounce than you might expect) is/was haunted by the #ghost of the wicked local squire Dafydd Salusbury. #Folklore states that his damned spirit can be heard groaning as he rides invisibly round and round the village.
#PhantomsFriday
An old, ivy-clad cottage seen from the graveyard and through the lych gate of a village church.
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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essaeem.bsky.social
Florida's Tampa Theatre is a historic 1920s movie palace that is said to be haunted by multiple ghosts including its long-time projectionist. One of his successors reported the feeling of being poked in the shoulder by an invisible hand whenever it was time to change the movie reels. #PhantomsFriday
Photo of the marquee that marks the entrance to the Tampa Theatre in Tampa, Florida
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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chriswoodyard.bsky.social
#PhantomsFriday A giant ghost at Benton, Indiana, 1896. "The Weird Visitor is Eight Feet High and Wears White Robes Shooting Parties Fill It With Buckshot With Harmless Results Carries a Club and Haunts the Cemetery"
"Killed by a Specter" chapter in The Ghost Wore Black, available worldwide.
Ghost in long robe, holding a club, standing before a church, holding up at hand, while a horse balks in the road. Cover of The Ghost Wore Black Ghastly Tales from the Past, Chris Woodyard, skeletal figure seen through a sheer black veil.
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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drpaullee.bsky.social
I gave an interview to @jameskoppert.bsky.social and his Fortean News Podcast last weekend. If you're interested in our long chat, it's on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRXh...

#phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings
The Interview: Dr Paul Lee and Haunted Hospitality
YouTube video by Fortean News Podcast
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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huberthobux.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The activity is on a level with Jamaica inn almost... 😳... but this is #hauntedDerbyshire !!

The Druids.. Birchover #phantomsFriday
Secret Derbyshire - Pint with a Poltergeist: Druids Inn - BBC Sounds
The pub in Birchover has many stories... that refuse to die.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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missscarlett2024.bsky.social
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hauntedbench75.bsky.social Haunted Bench Project @hauntedbench75.bsky.social · 11h
Richard Felix, The People's Ghost Stories (Felix-Lilley, 2020). Posting it here because none of my other books will talk to it. I still 🖤 the cover photo.
Front cover photo of a ghost girl stood in the road. Blurb: "Richard Felix is most famous as the Historian for Living TV's Most Haunted appearing in over 120 episodes. He has been frightened of ghosts since the age of 4. Over the past twenty-eight years I have conducted Ghost walks in Derby, York, Chester, Chesterfield, Leicester, Bolton and Ashbourne. I have been involved in TV programmes including Most Haunted, Great British Ghosts, The Scariest places on Earth, The Y Files, and Ghost Detectives. Created forty-one videos of haunted counties in Great Britain and written eleven books on the subject. I thought it was time that I compiled a book of ghost stories. A different book of ghost stories. Stories straight from the horse's mouth. Not stories handed down from generation to generation that often turn into Chinese Whispers. Not stories gleaned from hours of research in libraries or trolled from the internet. Not stories penned by writers with creative or imaginative minds. Not stories from professors, Parapsychologists or supposed experts in the paranormal field. But stories from you, "Joe Public". First-hand accounts from those who have experienced Ghosts, whatever Ghosts are! "
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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buserror5.bsky.social
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Two haunted house poems.

Tenant by Frances Angevine Gray. I could not find an original publication date. This text is from Fire and Sleet and Candlelight (1961).

In the Shadows (1935) by Leah Bodine Drake.
TENANT Something lives in this house, Unseen by my eyes, Impossible ever to take by surprise. On the staircase a tread. As I lie on my bed, A fleet footfall crosses The floor overhead. When I read in my chair, The sensitive air Grows suddenly chill. I glance in the mirror In startled surmise. Some image dissolving Baffles my eyes, A presence not evil, Portending no harm, Yet alien to all things Familiar and warm. IN THE SHADOWS As we went up the narrow stair, My candle slim and I, From the crouching shadows came A little tired sigh. And there was nothing on the stair Or in my garret room, But cobwebs on the rafters, And corners filled with gloom. And still and silent was the house, And dark and still the air.... But where the shadows wavered In the candle-flare, Something small, unearthly, sighed Out of some strange despair.
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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buserror5.bsky.social
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Interior illustration by Stephen Fabian for the 1977 Underwood-Miller reprint of The Eyes of the Overworld (1966) by Jack Vance.
Cugel encounters a ghost wearing pale robes and a fillet (headband) with 20 moonstones on stalks.
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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drpaullee.bsky.social
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November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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anniebrassey.bsky.social
"'Twas a Ghostly Evening to be Sure for the B.A.T.S.
The Bexhill Amateur Dramatic Society took time off from rehearsing their winter production, "And this was Odd," to hold a Hallowe'en party at the Granville Hotel."
Bexhill Observer 9.11.1957. #PhantomsFriday #Bexhill #Sussex #1950s
Newspaper cutting from the Bexhill Observer 9.11.1957. "'Twas a Ghostly Evening to be Sure for the B.A.T.S."
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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21rosa.bsky.social
Sir John de Widderington was known as a just lord, but even a good man can make a bad error when troubles pile up. He rode from Barrasford to York to meet Wolsey, & together tackle reivers' lawlessness. And that's when he remembered he had the key to his castle dungeon in his pocket #PhantomsFriday
Haughton Castle, seat of Sir John de Widderington and site of the screaming spectre of Archie Armstrong 📸 readily available online
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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drpaullee.bsky.social
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These volumes are an idea for Christmas, a shame the link is to the Japanese store! I've put UK and US links below:

Amazon UK : amzn.to/3LPXcpP

Amazon US : amzn.to/4a7el8v
ghostlytales.bsky.social Andi Brooks @ghostlytales.bsky.social · 21h
A Three-Cornered Ghost by Charles Henry Ross, originally published in 1870, is now available in Ghost Stories for Christmas, Volume One: www.amazon.co.jp/.../Ghost-St... #CharlesHenryRoss #ChristmasGhostStory #GhostStory #christmasbooks #christmasgiftideas #christmaspresent #ghostbooks #shortstory
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM