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Phantoms Friday
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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.'
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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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...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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.

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November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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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.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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#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.
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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...

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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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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.
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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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.
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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.
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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"'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
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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
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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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.

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November 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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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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November 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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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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“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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November 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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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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November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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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
Of course, that should have been NEW contributors!
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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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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Bed time after another thoroughly enjoyable #PhantomsFriday. Sleep well, and don't let the bogeys fright.
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM