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Currybetdotnet recent comments round-up 2008-08-29
Back in February and March of this year I did a series of articles about blog comments, and one of my suggestions was that doing an occasional round-up of interesting comments was a way of making sure they got attention, particularly if they had been left on older articles. One way or another I've been in a bit of an Internet connection black hole for the last five weeks or so, and it means that the moderating of comments on...

Read the full post - Published August 29, 2008 in BBC, Blogging, Ghost Walks, London Olympics, Olympics, Radio

Haunted Cambridge - Part 2
Yesterday I started recounting a recent ghost walk of our own devising which my wife and I did in Cambridge. A lot of the source material comes from Geoff Yeates book "Cambridge College Ghosts", although the internet provided us with some extra stories. The fourth Cambridge college on our journey was Jesus College. It is a little way out from the main shopping centre of town, and as such is much more peaceful. We found a bench to sit on...

Read the full post - Published November 30, 2007 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Cambridge
Every now and then I deviate from this blog's usual diet of newspapers, the BBC, RSS and moaning about badly broken websites, and move into the realms of the paranormal, with accounts of ghost walks I've done with my wife. I'm a sceptic myself, but I love the way ghost stories weave themselves into the fabric of local history, and given that lots of ghost stories revolve around haunted pubs or inns, I find the walks perfectly enjoyable. During our...

Read the full post - Published November 29, 2007 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Clerkenwell
There can't be many occassions during married life where you get to lean in towards your wife in a dark alley in London, and utter the immortal phrase "Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane". But that's exactly what happened to me last week, when we were on a ghost walk near Farringdon. Yesterday I wrote about a ghost walk my wife and I did in London from St Pauls to the Barbican. The walk featured in Ruchard Jones' excellent "Walking Haunted...

Read the full post - Published November 1, 2007 in Ghost Walks

Haunted St Paul's and Barbican - "The city of the dead"
With it being halloween tonight, I thought it an appropriate day to continue the stories of our recent ghost walks... During our recent stay in London we have done four of the walks from the Richard Jones "Walking Haunted London" book. Last week I wrote about our trip around Westminster, and a rather disappointing and long journey around Knightsbridge, Kensington and Notting Hill. Our third walk was called "City of the dead", and started off from St Paul's station to...

Read the full post - Published October 31, 2007 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Knightsbridge, Kensington and Notting Hill
Long-term readers of currybetdotnet will know that as well as the usual technical and media bits'n'bobs on the site, I used to recount the ghost walks my wife and I went on in London, and further afield. Whilst we've been in London we've done a couple more walks from Richard Jones' excellent book "Walking Haunted London". Yesterday I wrote about our trip starting in Westminster, and today here is what happened when we walked around Haunted Kinghtsbridge, Kensington and Notting...

Read the full post - Published October 25, 2007 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Westminster and Piccadilly
Long-term readers of this blog may recall that I used to regularly intersperse the usual mix of observation about websites, moaning about newspapers and wittering on about the slightest thing that my BBC team had done online with tales of the ghost walks that my wife and I did around London when we lived here permanently. Most of them were based on the book "Walking Haunted London" by Richard Jones, although we also made up our own route through Haunted...

Read the full post - Published October 24, 2007 in Ghost Walks

Investigating the history of witches in Salzburg
Unlike the behemoth of the BBC, I seldom take the opportunity to cross-post to or cross-promote the blogs I contribute to, but I wanted to make an exception this week. Those of you who ever followed the posts on here about the ghost walks that I use to do in London, and in one case in Haunted Malta, with my wife, might be interested in a series of posts she has published this week on 'A lemon tree of our...

Read the full post - Published February 23, 2007 in Austria, Ghost Walks, Other

Haunted Liverpool Street to Mansion House
Last Christmas I bought my wife the book "Walking Haunted London" by Richard Jones. Since then we've been doing a few of the ghost walks in the book, which usually involves stopping in a good few haunted pubs for refreshment, which makes them a very enjoyable pastime in my book. Since we are shortly leaving the country, on Thursday night my wife and I made probably what will be our last ghost walk in London, following the route that Jones...

Read the full post - Published November 26, 2005 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Walthamstow and Chingford
Followers of this site will know that my wife and I are no strangers to traipsing around bits of London looking for the locations of alleged hauntings - in fact currybetdotnet even has a Ghost Walks category. In all these trips though we have never investigated the haunted heritage of where we live and where I was born - Waltham Forest. So finding ourselves at a loss for somewhere exotic to stay over the bank holiday weekend, and wanting to...

Read the full post - Published September 8, 2005 in Ghost Walks, Popular, Walthamstow

Ghosts by Gaslight - A Big Bus Company Ghost Walk (and Pub Crawl)

Published August 29, 2005 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Belgravia and Chelsea

Published August 1, 2005 in Ghost Walks, Other

Haunted Malta

Published July 11, 2005 in Ghost Walks, Popular, Travelogue

Haunted Cockfosters and Enfield

Published July 10, 2005 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Great Portland Street and Theatreland

Published July 5, 2005 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Canterbury

Published May 31, 2005 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Holborn

Published April 28, 2005 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Chiswick

Published April 11, 2005 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Highgate

Published April 6, 2005 in Ghost Walks

Haunted Hampstead

Published March 27, 2005 in Ghost Walks