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Today's the beginning of 中元节 Zhongyuan, a.k.a. Ghost Month, the second Chinese annual traditional festivals of the dead. You can read about it here. This is increasingly returning to be THE occasion for the creepy, ghostly and horror tales in China 1/ #culture #sff snowpavilion.co.uk/zhong-yuan-g...

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Horror editor on a break falls into a fairy tale

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And for my own #FridayReads I have two books: 24 Hours in the Viking World by Kirsten Wolf The Folk in the Woods by E.M. McConnell (@erynmccee.bsky.social) folk horror, yay! Diving in this evening

"Pray for me, O my friends, a visitant Is knocking his dire summons at my door, The like of which, to scare me and to daunt, Has never, never come to me before..." - John Henry Newman (Picture: John Farleigh) #PhantomsFriday #poetry #poetrysky #ghost #gothic

A favourite of mine is a story from an ordinary 1930s semi near #Wolverhampton. Following glimpses of a ghostly woman, a blue eye was spotted peering up from a knot in the floorboards. Moving from side to side, it watched Mrs Nicholls and her son for about 10 minutes, then vanished. #PhantomsFriday

From The Springfield News Sun, August 22, 199: #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #ghosts

Rumours that Arkwright haunts his 1788 Greyhound hotel are unfounded! landlords in situ between 1978 and 1986 never witnessed any thing but declared there is a secret passage where the clock winding mechanism is located which always had a chilling feeling whenever they wound it up! #phantomsFriday

In 1960 the owner of Meriden Hall, Warwickshire, a Mrs. Boucher, told a reporter that one day when she was alone in a certain part of the building, she felt someone 'pass close by' her and smelled the scent of a perfume that she didn't recognise. #PhantomsFriday #paranormal #hauntings

The Bull's Head pub in Meriden (Coventry) is said to be #haunted by "Fred", a waiter who committed suicide. Also a man is seen in an upstairs bar wearing a tight coat & his hair in a pigtail accompanied by an intense cold sensation.The #ghostly sound of coach wheels is also heard. #PhantomsFriday

The Roti Pani restaurant in Willenhall, W. Midlands, is said to be haunted by a ghostly knocking at 9pm every evening, on the door on an upstairs landing. #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #ghosts #hauntings

In 1777 "a gentleman of a particular turn of mind and deeply skilled in the abstruse and sacred science of exorcism" placed an ad in 'The Sketch' to offer his services to those owning property "falling to decay" because they were haunted. "Rooms rendered habitable in six days." #PhantomsFriday

Police Gazette, July 14, 1894. Despite seeing a spirit grow from child to adult at a Buffalo NY seance, Mrs. J.P. Lyle became sceptical of the proceedings and attempted to seize the supposed spirit. Chaos ensued among the 40 paying attendees, as the fraud was exposed. #phantomsfriday

"The ghost of a sad old lady?" Bexhill Observer 5.2.1987. #PhantomsFriday

In 1892, newspapers began circulating a story about a dying spiritualist who planned to have himself enclosed in a large glass cylinder, connected to telegraph equipment, so his entrapped ghost could communicate definitive proof of life after death. #PhantomsFriday braegrosz.com/2025/09/12/g...

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), was a hit show for Lew Grade’s ITC in 1969-1970. As a team of private investigators, Jeff Randall (Mike Pratt) and Marty Hopkirk (Kenneth Cope) had a unique advantage: Hopkirk was dead, and only Randall could see and talk to his ghost colleague. #PhantomsFriday

Medium Eusapia Palladino (the woman in the background) levitates a musical instrument during a séance at the home of Baron von Schrenck Notzing, circa 1909. #PhantomsFriday

The soul of bad Sir John Wynne, who oppressed his tenants in the 16th C, was trapped in the pool beneath the Swallow Falls (Rhaeadr y Wennol) in Betws-y-Coed, #Conwy, 'there to be punished, purged, and purified of the foul deeds' he'd done. If you can't get at an aristo in life... #PhantomsFriday

A cute ghost for #PhantomsFriday

The 15th C Hall-i-the-Wood, #Lancashire, was taken off the Royalist family who'd owned it for generations and given to a Parliamentarian instead. One ancestor is still so angry over this that he has a habit of riding his horse noisily up and down the staircase (invisibly). #PhantomsFriday #folklore

The Cellar Bar at the Arts Centre in Stamford is a peculiarity. Its either one of the most haunted locations ever - or it's just a mundane beer and events venue. Who do we believe? #phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings

El Escorial Monastery (Madrid, Spain) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the legends, the spot on which the monastery stands is the location of one of the gates of Hell. The place is steeped in supernatural legends, including ghost stories. (1/4) #PhantomsFriday

At the top of Dollar Glen in the Ochils is Maiden Castle, a fairy hill. A piper was taken inside the hill to play to the gathered assembly. They welcome him, he plays all night, then finds himself alone by the dark silent hill. He returns home a stranger- 100 years have passed. #PhantomsFriday

Two phantom black dogs were reported to wander Pill Lane in Little Compton. They are believed to be the ghost of a Mrs Pardington. No information in my sources about who Mrs P. was but nearby there is a field called Pardington’s Close. #PhantomsFriday #SpectralHounds

Why are there so many #ghost Cavaliers in #folklore, I ask myself? The Civil War was one of the most violent and psychologically damaging periods in British history but where are the Parliamentarian #ghosts? Are Cavaliers just more romantic or is it some sort of #folktale snobbery? #PhantomsFriday

@kitwhitfield.bsky.social returns to GNoH with another amazing in-depth article on horror films with Beauty Horror: The gore-geous fairy tale micro-genre. Taking a deep dive into The Substance and The Ugly Stepsister gnofhorror.com/beauty-horro... @coraliefargeat.bsky.social

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