Matter of flowers
There are truly some occasions that you see raised time and time again. Where a fuller context is often not seen by those outside the situation. An intention to steer a narrative of discontent to inform others of malice, where there was none. Case in...
PN#12 Discover the Secrets of Bestwood Country Park: Nell Gwynn’s Ghost? and the Men in Black Mystery
Bestwood Country Park was famously King Charles II’s Royal hunting lodge, Bestwood Lodge Hotel has its share of ghostly stories. If you approach Bestwood Country Park from Park Road through Bestwood Village, one encounters structures of its former mining heritage from the 1800s to the...
PN#11 Saint Peters Church, Radford and The Old Salutation Inn
In 1969, strange occurrences were reported at St. Peter’s Church in Radford. Doors would open on their own, and on one occasion, a heavy candlestick mysteriously flew across the room with no apparent cause. The vicar at the time, Rev. James Lemon, remained unbothered by...
PN#10 Shadows that stepped out of the well
This account is attributed to Wayne Anthony’s book Haunted Nottinghamshire, coming from Jason in West Bridgeford. I have heard a remarkably similar story from Strelley Village—perhaps the same account giver. Jason’s new home stood on the grounds of a former manor in West Bridgford, a...
Aliens, Cards, and Testimonies: An Evening at BUFOG, Birmingham
A message from Ash Ellis of UFO Identified appears in my inbox. Birmingham UFO Group is looking for a speaker. Dave Hodrien. After confirming some details and contact info, we connected. “Brill! It’s a fun night”, “Dave’s a proper good guy, deserves more recognition for...
PN#9 The Mystery Of The Ghost with Flaming Red Hair
A major town in the Nottinghamshire is Mansfield. Where the Quakers began and industry boomed. The Manor House, of Mansfield Woodhouse is believed to be haunted. A Grade II listed building and stands on Priory Road with a history dated to the 1500s. Around 1929,...
PN#8 The Haunting on Denewood Crescent, Georges Lane and more
Denewood Crescent In 1968, Charles Hill, a local bus driver, and his family were forced to flee their home on Denewood Crescent in Bilborough due to an unexplained and terrifying haunting. The relentless disturbances drove them to plead with the city council for assistance. Sympathetic...
PN#7 Ghostly Gedling and Eerie Encounters in Arnold
Steve Bushfield, now editor of Press Gazette Media Guardian, found himself at the brief focus of a poltergeist case while working for the Nottingham Evening Post. After repeated requests to investigate strange events at Rolleston Drive. Bushfield visited the office cabin of Arnold Self Drive....
PN#6 Annesley Hall: Ghost Lights in the stable
Although Annesley Hall itself is widely known as the ancestral home of the Chaworth-Musters family, its grand history would typically steer us away from lesser-known locations our series of Phenomenal Nottinghamshire has been aiming for. Its connection to Lord Byron makes it impossible to ignore....
PN#5 Spring Heeled Jack strides in a Nottinghamshire village
Spring-heeled Jack is one of Victorian England’s most enduring urban legends, a figure shrouded in mystery, fear, and much speculation. First reported in the 1830s, this enigmatic figure was said to leap impossibly high walls and rooftops, leaving witnesses in stunned terror. Descriptions of him...