Let us venture off the beaten track. Join us as we delve into lesser-known local accounts and uncover a unique blend of the uncanny and bizarre across the county, exploring some of Nottinghamshire’s most mysterious and rarely told tales of high strangeness.
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...
PN#4 Brokilow Boggan & the lingering spirit of Peggy Whooper
ISBN 185306 429 7 Phenomenal Nottinghamshire Ghostly goings on within the Park Estate and A Bestwood HauntingThe Brokilow Boggan & the lingering spirit of Peggy Whooper Want to continue your handshake with the mysteries of Nottinghamshire? We have a 12 part series of articles ready...
PN#3 The River That Claims Souls & Beckingham’s Black Dog
The mighty winding river Trent, reaching from the North Sea and carving itself deep into the midlands, connects our stories today. The Black Dog of Beckingham Beckingham is a village and parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, in the northern reaches of the county....
PN#2 Phantoms of the Park Estate and Bestwood Hauntings
Park Estate The Park Estate is one of some intentional secrecy, a private estate formerly a hunting ground for nobility. It’s right behind Nottingham Castle with limited access in and out. There are traditional-style gas lamps throughout and the whole estate has a Victorian gothic...
PN#1 The Terror of Laurie Close & The Sunken Church
Phenomenal Nottinghamshire series uncovering a unique blend of the uncanny and bizarre across the county, exploring some of Nottinghamshire’s most mysterious and rarely told tales of high strangeness. If stereotypes are to be believed, ghosts and phantoms only haunt grand houses once occupied by privileged...
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....