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Stacia Briggs

Oct 30

Featured

The phantom funeral of Croxton

A phantom funeral at Croxton.

"The shade of the great Robsarts still cherishes Raynsthorpe"

Stacia Briggs

Aug 14

Featured

"The shade of the great Robsarts still cherishes Raynsthorpe"

Born on June 7 1532, little is known about her early life but a great deal is known about her death at the tender age of 28

Ghosts of the past: a Victorian horror that haunted a house of tragedy in Norwich

Stacia Briggs

Jun 26

Haunted Places

Ghosts of the past: a Victorian horror that haunted a house of tragedy in Norwich

A Victorian horror that haunted a house of tragedy in Norwich

Norfolk prepares for Anne Boleyn’s visit

Stacia Briggs

May 1

Haunted Places

Norfolk prepares for Anne Boleyn’s visit

Born at Blickling,Anne Boleyn is said to return on the anniversary of her execution every year

The ghost of Catherine Gurney who haunts Earlham Hall

Stacia Briggs

Apr 17

Haunted Places

The ghost of Catherine Gurney who haunts Earlham Hall

June marks the anniversary of Catherine Gurney’s – sister of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry – death and is said to be when her ghost appears

The shapeshifting horror of The Hateful Thing in Geldeston

Stacia Briggs

Mar 20

Folklore

The shapeshifting horror of The Hateful Thing in Geldeston

Stacia Briggs

Mar 10

Haunted Places

The Bacton Wood ghost

Tarred and jammed into a human-shaped cage hanging from a post in Norfolk woodland, William Suffolk's penance for a brutal murder.

Stacia Briggs

Feb 21

Haunted Places

The Potter Heigham Drummer Boy

The drummer ghost of Potter Heigham

The phantom food flinger of RAF Mildenhall

Stacia Briggs

Jan 17

Haunted Places

The phantom food flinger of RAF Mildenhall

East Anglia’s airfields are legendary for their ghostly residents, but at RAF Mildenhall, one ghost made itself known by flinging food.

Sandringham House's Ghosts: the veiled lady in the mirror

Stacia Briggs

Dec 20, 2023

Haunted Places

Sandringham House's Ghosts: the veiled lady in the mirror

In the early 1900s, a young prince went to visit his aunt at Sandringham – where he met a ghost pleading for mercy from beyond the grave.

Sandringham House’s ghost: “…a wheezing sound that resembles a grotesque lung breathing in and out…”

Stacia Briggs

Dec 13, 2023

Haunted Places

Sandringham House’s ghost: “…a wheezing sound that resembles a grotesque lung breathing in and out…”

Stacia Briggs

Dec 6, 2023

Haunted Places

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

It’s probably the most famous ghost photograph in the world: The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, captured for Country Life in 1936.

RAF Feltwell: “I realised I was reaching out towards the black shape from my bed…”

Stacia Briggs

Nov 22, 2023

Haunted Places

RAF Feltwell: “I realised I was reaching out towards the black shape from my bed…”

The following story of a haunted room at RAF Feltwell was told in April 2023 on a website which has itself been a ghost since 2011.

Stacia Briggs

Nov 8, 2023

Haunted Places

The ghosts of RAF Feltwell

Most haunted airfields are derelict, overgrown and deserted – but the ghosts at RAF Feltwell do so on a very active site.

Stacia Briggs

Sep 28, 2023

Folklore

The Witch of East Somerton

Woodlands are places of folklore and fairytale, myth and magic, and nowhere is this more beautifully illustrated than at East Somerton.

Stacia Briggs

Sep 26, 2023

Haunted Places

The ghost of Gressenhall

Lights turning themselves off and on, objects being moved by unseen hands, a ‘cold’ presence – and a typed statement about the ghost of...

Stacia Briggs

Sep 24, 2023

Halloween 2023

12 Oct: The white lady

Two churches stand side by side in the village of Kirby Bedon, one a ruin, the other standing, both said to be haunted by the same ghost.

Stacia Briggs

Sep 24, 2023

Halloween 2023

15 Oct: The corpse-way

If you have reason to be across the border in Suffolk and on The Causeway in Needham Market, take a moment to consider that you are taking..

19 Oct: Phantom coaches at the Royal Arcade

Stacia Briggs

Sep 24, 2023

Halloween 2023

19 Oct: Phantom coaches at the Royal Arcade

Phantom coaches rumble through the cellars of the Royal Arcade.

Stacia Briggs

Sep 24, 2023

Halloween 2023

20 Oct: The sneering man

The Sneering Man stalks the coastal road in front of terrified drivers, some of whom claim to have driven straight through him.

Stacia Briggs

Sep 24, 2023

Halloween 2023

26 Oct: Mysterious entities at Fritton

In July 1997, two people were sitting in their car at the woods at Fritton when they saw something very strange.

27 Oct: Norwich's haunted church mystery

Stacia Briggs

Sep 24, 2023

Halloween 2023

27 Oct: Norwich's haunted church mystery

The book Norwich and Norfolk: Stone Age to the Great War, recounts relatively modern-day ghost sighting in a city centre church.

Stacia Briggs

Sep 24, 2023

Halloween 2023

28 Oct: The King's Lynn haunted house

On their very first night in the house, three occupants were rudely awoken from their slumber by an invisible interloper.

29 Oct: A chilling tale from a Cromer church

Stacia Briggs

Sep 24, 2023

Halloween 2023

29 Oct: A chilling tale from a Cromer church

A chilling tale told by Walter Rye in his book Cromer Past and Present, published in 1899, of a grisly ghost seen at the dead of night.