Phenomenal Nottinghamshire

In this talk I separate the facts from the folklore.

We dive into the real history of eccentric widow Jenny Burton – the pipe-smoking 95-year-old whose family still live in Hucknall – alongside the very different tales of a murdered old woman, a young girl who hanged herself for love, and the chilling 1817 murder of Elizabeth Shepard whose memorial still stands on the A60.

Along the way we meet hooded figures, headless c...

Bestwood Country Park was famously King Charles II's Royal hunting lodge, Bestwood Lodge Hotel has its share of ghostly stories. Does Neil Gywnn still offer oranges? An account given to us was a gentleman with his grandson had an apparition encounter with what was potentially Nell Gwynn. 

Men in Black 

Park Road, describing a black car, very expensive, a BMW possibly? "so immaculate it looked out of place." What happened...

In 1969, strange occurrences were reported at St. Peter’s Church in Radford. In full view of the congregation strange events occurred, and just what happened to that candlestick?

"The Sal" rocks out with live music many nights of the week. Has a history of more than 600 years on the site, has seen Cromwell enter through its doors to more contemporary legends like Bruce Dickinson. Of the characters said to be wit...

One night, a man awoke suddenly and went to close his curtains, only with equal parts surprise and terror, to see shadowy figures jittering and jerking, climbing out of the old cottage garden well. This is the case of The Shadows that Stepped out of the Well

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Every county has its stories—familiar tales of iconic sites steeped in lege...

One morning, a young girl is awoken by a stranger beside her. Years later, she discovers that other people have also had encounters with the Ghost with Flaming Red Hair!

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Every county has its stories—familiar tales of iconic sites steeped in legend, their myths retold...

A family living on Denewood Crescent are forced to make the decision to move out. Apparitions along with unexplainable and terrifying events. 

Georges Lane is an eerie winding road, for nearly 100 years with accounts going back to at least the 1930s of encounters with figures who give chase to people and appear in the back of cars. Perhaps the original "Nightcrawler" account. We recount events that sort to i...

Accounts of weird events, taps, raps and loud bangs. Items being thrown. Pressure to call in the media, who eventually did send a reporter who himself was quickly introduced to the phenomena as he stepped into the building.  

A residential home where monsters come through the walls and a phantom fare dodger from the 1960s! 

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Every county has it...

Lady Chaworth was adored and lusted by Lord Byron. Annesley Hall has several famed accounts of the strange and unusual from disembodied voices to tales of portals to the underworld. Our story focuses on the gatehouse / stable block for a first-hand report of the unexplained. 

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The figure who terrorized and leapt around the buildings of London from the 1830s, Spring Heeled Jack. Breathing blue flames, bright eyes and using distraction to steal items. He was never caught, and he put in the appearances both sides of the Atlantic. But it seems, he took a trip to the Fortean Village of Linby in Nottinghamshire. 

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The village of Laxton is the location of the double bill of high strangeness. The lingering spirit of Peggy Whooper, does she continue to haunt the bridge where she was murdered? The brooding Brokilow Boggan prowls on the road. 

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The mighty winding river Trent, reaching from the North Sea and carving itself deep into the midlands, connects our stories today. 

Among its oldest tales is the legend of the Black Dog of Beckingham. As with so many ghostly canines, this one is always seen as black as night. It emerges from the cemetery, moving purposefully along the road or running silently, following a path toward the old boatyard before taking the...

Phantoms of The Park Estate has traditional-style gas lamps throughout and the whole estate has a Victorian gothic aesthetic, no two buildings look alike. 

The nights when the mist rolls, cloaking the streets in a cold, silken shroud. The gas lamps flicker weakly against the encroaching fog, it then she is said to appear... 

Case of poltergeist phenomena and urban legends

A Bestwood Haunting “This ...

Our journey begins in a neglected corner of Forest Fields, a densely populated neighbourhood in the heart of Nottingham. Known as a multicultural melting pot, Forest Fields is a place “where there’s always something going on.” But in 1995, something otherworldly was happening within one of its modest residential homes. A small close that I pass by frequently on the way to the day job, Laurie Close.

Polter...