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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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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
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November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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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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hauntedbench75.bsky.social Haunted Bench Project @hauntedbench75.bsky.social · 7h
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 · 18h
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
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One for #PhantomsFriday @theghostmonk.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-scienc...
The Science of Ghosts
Explore paranormal experiences and the science behind it with Dr Ciarán O’Keeffe. Followed by Q&A.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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ruinsofdespair.bsky.social
Ghost is sorrow in Wordsworth's 'Lucy Gray', 1799.

William heard the story from his sister: Near Halifax, a young girl lost her way in a snow-storm. The parents traced her footsteps in the snow to the middle of the lock of a canal, where they stopped.

#PhantomsFriday #poetry #romanticism #booksky
Two last stanzas from the poem: —Yet some maintain that to this day She is a living child; That you may see sweet Lucy Gray Upon the lonesome wild. O'er rough and smooth she trips along, And never looks behind; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind. Painting: 'Im tiefen Winter' by Richard Freiherr von Drasche-Wartinberg (1850-1923). A black river winds through a snowy landscape.
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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warksfolklore.bsky.social
A spectral nun in a brown habit has been seen a number of times in Nun’s Wood and Wappenbury Woods. On one occasion she actually approached one eyewitness and walked straight through him.
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Woodland path covered in leaves seen through tangled branches
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social
So, #PhantomsFriday then. One from my vault of published articles, this was featured in #PaganDawn magazine. My experiences ghost hunting as a Neopagan among groups that were not. Received positively at the time, this may also interest #ForteanSky as well.
theacceleratedchaote.com/2023/08/19/p...
Pagan Spirits
Ghost hunting is not for everyone. Indeed, those who already have a rich and varied experience with the spirit world through their regular Neopagan practice are unlikely to want to spend the night …
theacceleratedchaote.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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mccartneyjoe.bsky.social
“I remember how awful it was when I was a new girl, Sue, but don't be nervous. I'll be right by your side. Remember only you can see or hear me. Because I've chosen to be your friend.” ~ Ghostly Gloria, in the 'Bunty' pocket sized comic issue #144 from 1975.
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A pupil is startled by a ghost appearing at an old school desk.
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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beesincampanula.bsky.social
According to legend, at the battle of Gruinard on Islay in 1598, a fighter offered his services to both sides in turn, later killing the leader who had rejected him with an elf-bolt. The fighter was the Dubh Sith, or Black Elf.
Spurn supernatural help at your peril…
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Gruinart, Islay, now an RSPB reserve…
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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karsloan.bsky.social
John Dee and Edward Kelley invoking the spirit of a deceased person whilst safe inside their magic circle. 🪄 👻 #Ghost #PhantomsFriday

🎨 Engraving by Ebenezer Sibly, ca 1806
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Of course, that should have been NEW contributors!
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
It's #PhantomsFriday again tomorrow (it being Friday and all), so do please join in the feed with posts on all things #ghost. Words, art, #folklore, haunted locations & the yarns told about them; all is grist to the spooky mill! Near contributors will be doubly welcome.
#haunted #ghosts #paranormal
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
Bed time after another thoroughly enjoyable #PhantomsFriday. Sleep well, and don't let the bogeys fright.
A tinted Cruikshank drawing of a man pointing out to a young man at the foot of his bed that a skeleton has just appeared behind him.
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM