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"Diana, the ghost, and the cathedral" - Haunted St. Albans
It seems a long time ago now, but back in September and October last year when we were planning our move back to the UK, we considered St. Albans as a place we might choose to live, and so took a day trip there to have a scout around. Not any ordinary day trip, of course, because with a bit of digging around in local history and folklore, we managed to turn it into a ghost walk around the town....

Read the full post - Published June 17, 2009 in Ghost Walks - No comments yet

On the I-Spy look-out for "Ghosts, Mysteries and Legends"
If you were puzzled by a couple of my tweets over the weekend, then let me reassure you that I haven't chucked in the web lark and become a professional ghost hunter. However, I am currently on the look-out for spooky stuff. Last week @bigchiefIspy recruited me into his I-Spy Tribe, by sending me an unsolicited copy of the 1995 Michelin "I-Spy Book of Ghosts, Mysteries & Legends". It is actually a little trickier than some of the more straightforward...

Read the full post - Published May 4, 2009 in Ghost Walks, Nostalgia - 1 comment so far

The Hexenturm Files...coming to Radio 4
You might recall that 18 months ago I was living in Salzburg, Austria, whilst working with Sony. At the time the joint blog that my wife and I write about our travels was called 'Some Edelweiss Of Our Own' rather than 'A lemon tree of our own'. Whilst in Salzburg, my better half wrote a series of articles which she called 'The Hexenturm Files'. She had noticed a picture of a spooky old building in the laundry she used on...

Read the full post - Published November 2, 2008 in Austria, Ghost Walks, Radio - 1 comment so far

Haunted Amsterdam - Part 2
Yesterday I was writing about our experience going on the Amsterdam Ghost Walk whilst I was in the city for the Euro IA Summit. There were a couple of allegedly haunted places that we didn't get to see on the walk itself, and so we visited them under our own steam during our break in Amsterdam. The Wailing Tower Amsterdam's "Wailing Tower" was formerly part of the city's defensive walls, and used to be connected to The Waag by a...

Read the full post - Published October 19, 2008 in Ghost Walks - No comments yet

Haunted Amsterdam
I was recently in Amsterdam for the Euro IA Summit, and on the night before the conference was due to begin, my wife surprised me with the present of a guided ghost walk around town. Long term readers may remember that back when I lived in London I used to quite regularly blog about the ghosts walks we went on around the streets of London. Our guide met us outside The Tara, which was a pleasant, if pricey, Irish pub....

Read the full post - Published October 18, 2008 in Ghost Walks - 1 comment so far

Spooky shop on Hoe Street, Walthamstow
It appears that we might have a new ghost in Walthamstow - 'Spirits high despite the spooky visitors' Well, not a new ghost exactly, it apparently dates from the 1950s, and has been haunting a jewellers on Hoe Street in Walthamstow. There is a theory that it is the spirit of a young man who was murdered in the shop, but the local paper is appealing for anyone with more information about the building to come forward. It was the...

Read the full post - Published October 12, 2008 in Ghost Walks, Walthamstow - 2 comments so far

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 - No comments yet

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 - No comments yet

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 - 2 comments so far

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 - No comments yet

Haunted St Paul's and Barbican - "The city of the dead"

Published October 31, 2007 in Ghost Walks - 1 comment so far