Carisbrooke Castle. Can Love Survive History?
Princess Elizabeth entered Carisbrooke Castle as a royal prisoner and died there only weeks later. Her remarkable final letter transforms a forgotten Civil War tragedy into a timeless question.
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Hampton Court Palace. Ghosts Trapped in Time
Most ghosts aren't friendly and engaging like cartoon phantom Casper, they just do their thing, indifferent to our presence. That's what makes them so unsettling. Maybe there is a good reason for this.
The Afterlife and the Price of Belief
How do intelligent societies come to regard violence as morally necessary? That it serves a higher purpose? Throughout history people have accepted terrible actions because they believed death was not the end.
The Margo Williams Archive. How to Catch a Ghost
“Want to come and release a ghost?” asked Margo Williams. Most days that was exactly what she did. She pulled on an anorak, grabbed a large handbag stuffed with scraps of paper, pencils, a sharpener and a thermos flask.
What Are Ghosts? Spirits, Psychology or Glitches in Time?
Are ghosts spirits of the dead, or glitches in the "matrix of reality" - odd misalignments in our perception of time? What do we currently know and believe about the paranormal?
Glastonbury Tor. Can a Sacred Hill Heal?
Glastonbury Tor is one of Britain’s most mythologised hills; a geological feature where paganism, Christianity, Arthurian legend and ghost stories have accumulated for centuries. Could all these stories represent an attempt to heal a forgotten wound?
Windsor Castle. The Ghost of Monarchy
The tragedies associated with Windsor Castle are remarkable in both number and variety. Is this merely coincidence in the long history of one of Britain's most historic castles, or something resembling an old-fashioned curse?
Ghosts of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Portsmouth Naval Dockyard endures as a military institution, but also as a symbolic coastline of Britain’s relationship with the sea: powerful, haunted, practical, and never entirely explainable.
Old Sun Inn, Newport. Holyrood Street Hell-House
A secret room, a bag of shoes and a bl.odstained gown are clues in the mystery of Newport's most haunted house, the Old Sun Inn building.
Dimbola Lodge. The Chemical Sister
Some visitors to Dimbola Lodge Museum report the unexpected smell of long-vanished photographic chemicals, and wonder whether Julia Margaret Cameron still lingers where she once worked.
Ghosts of Versailles, Paris. Trianon Palace
The most famous sighting of a ghostly royal happened in France. Two Oxford academics published a report of a ghostly encounter in Versailles palace France.
Chale. Shipwreck, Smuggling & the Mystery of Miss Gourlay
Do communities create ghost stories to preserve memories of danger?
Hare & Hounds. Michael Morey, the Skull & the Gibbet
A fantastic haunted pub, complete with skull and gibbet beam. Paranormalists claim the ghost of wicked Michal Morey is the inn's supernatural sitting tenant.
The Missing Church of Brading
Did war, conquest and religious change erase one of the Isle of Wight's oldest churches?