High Street Ghost House in the Sai Ying Pun Community Complex
On High Street in Hong Kong there is a haunted house with a long history of housing nurses as well as patients that are now haunting the building.
The Ghosts Children Begging in Bramber
Dressed in rags in the cold Christmas season, the ghost of the children from the haunted Bramber Castle haunts the roads, begging for food as they starved to death on the King’s order. This is the eerie Christmas tale of The Ghosts Children Begging in Bramber.
Oskorsreia – the Wild Hunt in the North
The wild hunt is a supernatural ghost ride in the sky during the dark winter days. In Scandinavia this hunt is called Oskorsreia, often a hunt led by Odin himself that could be dangerous for people to get entangled in.
Lady Ursula’s Ghost Walk at Madingley Hall on Christmas Eve
Every year on Christmas Eve, the ghost of Lady Ursula is seen walking from Madingley Hall in Cambridge, unable to move on in the afterlife because of her son’s actions.
The Dangerously Haunted Tuen Mun Road
On the major expressways in Hong Kong, there are rumors that it is ghosts that are causing some of the many car accidents that have happened over the course of the years on the Tuen Mun Road.
Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
This is a christmas ghost story by feminist writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The main themes of this story are patriarchal power, aristocratic pride and the repression of women. It is a story of abuse,- physical violence and mental cruelty.
The Ghosts Inside of Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defense
Uncover stories of battles and defenses that shaped Hong Kong’s past at the Museum of Coastal Defence. According to the legends, there are also tales of ghosts of the fallen soldiers, and also the ghost of a dismembered woman wearing white.
Hauntings at the Penkaet Castle in Scotland
The Penkaet Castle in Scotland has its fair share of hauntings and is the home of not only one ghost, but several with its story of witchcraft, murder and royalty.
The Philosopher Ghost in Ca’Mocenigo
In the once glorious palace Ca’Mocenigo in Venice, strange hauntings related to water have been happening since the middle ages. Some claim it is the ghost of Giordano Bruno, a former philosopher that used to reside in the palace.
The Christmas Dinner by Washington Irving
First published in 1820 in Irving’s masterpiece, The Sketch Book, The Christmas Dinner is a charming tale by the great American writer behind such timeless classics as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Painting the scene of a Christmas dinner spent at the table of Bracebridge Hall, a countryside manor, the merry songs and stories of the dinner table echo with jollity of Christmases long past.
The Ghost Children at Mang Gui Kiu Bridge
After a terrible flooding accident on the Mang Gui Kiu Bridge in Hong Kong, there have been several reports about drivers and passerby seeing ashen faced ghost children waving at them, hoping that someone will finally get them out from the place
The Creepy History of The Haunted Old Spaghetti Factory
Take a journey through the macabre and spooky history of The Haunted Old Spaghetti Factory in Vancouver, a family restaurant where you get a ghost story served with your meal.
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens’s Christmas novellas. The story is more about the spirit of Christmas than about the holiday itself, harking back to the first in the series, A Christmas Carol. The tale centres on a Professor Redlaw and those close to him.
The Haunted Lui Seng Chun Building
When they tried to remodel the historical Lui Seng Chun building in Hong Kong everything went wrong and it was believed the whole process was cursed. After it was abandoned, people passing by kept seeing ghosts haunting the place.
The Tragic Tale of Miklabæjar-Solveig
Probably the closest thing Iceland has to a gothic romance tale, the ghost story of Miklabæjar-Solveig was the story of a real woman that was said to haunt the village she killed herself in after an unrequited love for a priest.
The Myths and Legends of Frankenstein Castle
The historic building of Frankenstein Castle is now mostly in ruins, but is still a place for myths and legends to live on and inspire new horror. On a stoney […]
