I’m on How Haunted again with my pal Rob and this time we covered Berry Pomeroy castle. It’s super haunted. 👻 Have a listen! Or you can read about it and see the ghost photos captured there in my blog: weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2024/11/30/b...

Why might Blind Lane, Ansty, be called so? Well I found out (from my new haul of folklorish stuff) that it is because the spring there was thought, in days gone by, to cure blindness in babies. I went to find the spring on Blind Lane. I think this is it!

I have scored the mother lode of local history/ folklore stuff! Huzzah! 🥳 Found in a little secondhand book shop, which is rarely open, this stash is golden. And all for £20. Result! 🤩

While this is certainly my fav time of year, Bonfire Night is definitely a ghoulish English celebration! It always strikes me as bizarre that we 'still' burn Guy Fawkes, one of the Catholic plotters who tried to blow up the House of Lords and King James in 1605. 🤔🎆 #bonfirenight #guyfawkes

I'm working on a new business idea since copywriting has died a death this last couple of years (thanks to AI). Keeping positive and everything crossed the new biz works. It involves old buildings and gargoyles. I'll say no more for now but leave you with a fab gargoyle from Salisbury Cathedral! ⛪

I do not need anything else to 'look after' but this little underwater world I spotted at the local fish keeping shop is so appealing. I want one! 😀🐟

If it’s got goggly eyes, it’s an automatic repost! 👀

Halloween Countdown - it's today! 🎃🧵 I had to go big for Halloween so today's stories are all about the ghostly activity at mysterious Stonehenge. A levitation, a phantom plane, white ladies, strange electrical energy, vanishing campers and even The Great Hurricane of 1987 await you...

Halloween Countdown - Day 2 🎃👻🧵 Avebury Early in the 20th C, Miss Olivier was driving through the stone circle of Avebury when she became aware of a fair being held amongst the stones. She could hear the sounds and see lights but she didn’t investigate. #Folklore #Ghosts #Halloween

Did I tell you I’ve been working with some Wilts College media students on their folklore project? One group chose The Old Bell, Malmesbury and I noticed something in a window. Chances are, it’s a living human. Or is it? It’s a strange photo of a very haunted place... if you use your imagination! 👻

Halloween Countdown - Day 3 🎃 The Freke Arms, Swanborough This 200 yr old pub is haunted by an old landlady. Unexplained footsteps, sudden cold spots, soft murmured voices and sounds from empty rooms are down to her. She appears at the bar with neat, blue ankle boots. Sometimes it’s just boots! 🥾

Here’s the full story of The Tedworth Poltergeist in cartoon! It’s really good and worth a read! 👻👻👻

Halloween Countdown - Day 4 🎃🧵 The Tedworth Drummer The first recorded poltergeist report in British history came from Tidworth. In 1661, a landowner seized a vagrant drummer’s drum for being a nuisance and begging. The drum was taken to the local magistrate’s house, Tedworth House. #Halloween

Halloween Countdown - Day 5 🎃🧵 The Angel, Chippenham Since at least 1613 The Angel, once known as The Bull, has been an important grade II* listed coaching inn on the London to Bristol route. A lot of travellers passing through. Visitors and staff have reported strange noises and footsteps.

Halloween Countdown - Day 6 🎃🧵 The Bell, Malmesbury In the room known as the library, a portrait of a lady is thought to be the melancholy grey lady, but no one knows who she is. Some books say she was a lady forced into an unhappy marriage and she hung herself in the James Ody Room.

Halloween Countdown - Day 7 The Black Dog of Calne Mrs Read told a tale of her grandfather’s. When taking the train to Calne and on to Coate by foot to visit his sickly grandfather, on the path he was met by a large dog with blazing eyes as big as saucers. #Halloween2025 #Halloween #Ghosts

More weird stuff found in Lyme Regis; from the beach this time. A skull stone and a ghost face stone! It must be coming up to Halloween…🎃👻🎃 #halloween #ghosts #skulls #pareidolia

A wax doll! 😱 Yikes. 👹

I’ve been at Arundells this evening, conducting a Weird Wiltshire talk about the ghosts of medieval Salisbury. Doesn’t the cathedral look amazing and suitably atmospheric! 🍁👻🍁

I was just having a little tea-break, 🫖 reading my book, when a tiny, perfect little oak leaf fluttered down on my book! I love autumn! 🍄🍂 🍁🍂🍄 #books #autumn #reading

I’ve been working with some Wiltshire College students on their folklore projects, the best of which I’ll be showcasing over on Weird Wilshire! One of the groups has chosen the death of Rock and Roll legend, Eddie Cochran, who sadly took his last breath in Chippenham in 1960 following a car crash. 🧵

One of my favourite accounts here on Bluesky, from a lovely little farm helping people and animals. ☺️🐴🪿🐔🐱☺️

Junk dinosaur threatening passers-by. 🦖

‘This place? Haunted you say? I don’t believe it.’ 👻 The Shires in Trowbridge may look like a dull, half-empty shopping centre (it is) but the land has quite the history being occupied since the 10th century…👻 weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2025/02/23/t...

Autumn in the woods! 🍁🍂🍄🍂🍁🥰 #autumn #trees #october

I love robins! ☺️

Here’s a new member of the Weird Wiltshire family and I’ve told ‘Patchwork Pete’ we’re off to find an old hill fort at the weekend. He’s ok with that if I provide apples as a snack! 🍎😁

The biggest, scariest month ever of How Haunted? starts tomorrow. Eight massive episodes, and the first one is coming tomorrow as I'm joined in conversation by @stephlay.bsky.social to discuss her spooky Milton Keynes project 👻

Fancy a career change and saving a critically endangered craft or heritage skill from extinction? Have a look at these. I'm currently undecided, but glass eye making and clay pipe making are top of my list! 👁️

4000 year old yew tree here in Wiltshire! So old it’s held together by a concrete block (not the best solution I’m sure). And the ghost of someone peeking around this tree has been spotted. 👻🌲😊

Owning no hearth, paying no taxes, gypsies were roving country folk. Despised, feared and secretly envied. Whittling wood to make clothes pegs, this man was photographed while camping at All Cannings, Wiltshire.

This was very interesting reading for anyone who feels our public services should not be run by private companies with only their own profits in mind. 💷 weownit.org.uk/why-public-o...

This sign would be useful in Wiltshire! Particularly in the Warminster area! 🛸 👽 🛸 Read about why Warminster really needs this sign here: weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2024/08/29/t... #UFOs #Wiltshire

There are many blind houses in Wiltshire; 18th c. village lockups, used to temporarily incarcerate drunks and trouble makers. This one is in Trowbridge. They are called this because there are no windows. Or could it also be because of the term 'blind drunk?'

Happy Monday! Have a gargoyle from Salisbury Cathedral! #gargoyle #grotesque

Pug’s Hole, Bowerchalke There is a thorn bush that grows in the shape of a garden seat. It is nestled into a dip on the hills and is known as Pug’s Hole. On dark nights, a voice is said to call out, 'I want to go home'. It's the voice of a shepherd who was lost up there on a snowy night. 👻

The "Odeon" in Salisbury, England. Hosted in a grade I Listed building, built as Ye Halle of John Halle, a Tudor Gothic style building which was originally built around 1470. The auditorium (built in 1931) is in a Tudor style, with seating for 1,125 in the stalls and 550 in the circle. #cinema

This Wiltshire meteorite has been on earth for 30 000 years. It is over 4.5 billion yrs old and comes from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. For the last 100 years it was used as a doorstop at Lake House! Thankfully it’s now been rescued from the doorstep! ☄️⭐️🪐⭐️☄️

Next year’s trees (hopefully -if they take) are in pots. This year I’ve also planted some walnuts and crab apples as well as my usual acorns, conkers, hazelnuts and more. We’ll see what pops up in the spring! 🌳🌲🌱 #trees

Need some new shoes? Stand out from the crowd with these delightful things. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face. 👠🦷😱🤪😱🦷 👠 #shoes #weird #teeth

Horses have been adorned with shiny objects for centuries. It's thought horses were very susceptible to a witch's 'evil eye' so they adorned them with brasses to dazzle and deflect their power. Migrating Romany gypsies who were thought to have introduced horse brasses to Britain in the 18th C. 🐴

As the evenings draw in, Autumn is well and truly here. 🍂Hunker down with this new podcast featuring me and my paranormal pal Rob on his excellent How Haunted podcast. We've been digging into the ghosts of Rufford Old Hall and heading off on some spooky tangents as always. Enjoy! 👻😀👻

Looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. 🌈 Sadly, the leprechauns are so tricky I couldn’t find it but, this being Ireland, I found a pint of Guinness! 🍺

Gas lamps on a bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin with a folklorish theme. They are called Aughisky, a mythological water spirit. I totally approve! 🐴🐟🧚🏻‍♂️ #folklore #dublin #ireland

From my desk at Weird Wiltshire HQ, aka, the shed, I have noticed someone watching over me (apologies for the photo.)😊 Another stone face!! Can you spot him?!

Now here’s a rare sight! A double rainbow! 🌈 A symbol of hope and prosperity coming my way, plus a double dose of good luck. Hurrah! And by sharing my photo with you, the luck, prosperity and hope is coming your way too. 🌈🌧️🌞🌧️🌈

Six Wells Valley 🧵 Me and the dog gang went to find the source of the River Stour in the medieval landscape of Six Wells Valley. Only one of the springs remain now, at St Peter's Pump, which has marked the spot since 1768, having been moved from St Peter's Church in Bristol (it's dated to 1474).

As someone who is constantly run off the road into the hedge in my little car by these massive, gas-guzzling tanks, I say 10 x the tax and parking for them. If you can afford a £80 000+ car and insist on using it down single track country lanes then you pay. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A little pressie arrived by post this morning! The new book by my very clever pal @profjasperh-b.bsky.social. It’s not just your average dull history book - it’s a good ol’ laugh, just like all Jasper’s books. Give him a follow and buy his book. It’s totally worth it! 📚🤩📚 #books

Now this is what I want AI to do… not write books, draw art or make films. AI should be making me the cocktail of my choice at any time of my choosing! Chin, chin! 🍹