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Dad died well over a decade ago. His ashes stayed at a funeral director's in the town where he'd lived, until his second wife died, a couple years back. The plan had been to mix the ashes but none of us kids wanted that so the funeral director discreetly agreed not to mix. Stepfamily took...

Here's our chance to uncover and document a phenomena as (if) it unfolds... Just occurred to me - when will the covid ghosts start? I mean, there are countries losing more people than died in a world war, to this disease. Yet I've not seen a single covid-related ghost account - yet. Ghosts...

We've been going to Byland Abbey a fair bit recently - it's English Heritage but open access. Often go in the evening so there is no-one else around. I had a bit of a weird experience there a month or so back - couldn't bring myself to write about it here, at the time because it was only a...

My latest book - material culture and history - has a chapter on folklore but generally appealing to those of us who like the gothic as it's full of murder, madness and mayhem. We Kickstarted it at the end of last year. (I didn't remember this part of the forum then or I'd have pushed it)...

Reading about theatre history and yet again came across stories about Les Dawson seeing the ghost of Sid James, not long before his own death. And it's clear that whatever he saw, was absolutely terrifying. But I can't seem to find an account I thought I found a while back, that did actually...

OK. I have to post this somewhere, and not sure where it fits as it's only mildly Fortean. But would appreciate your thoughts. I have two FB accounts. One my real name (got about 12 friends) and one my work name (got a lot more, and no, I'm not a famous porn star or anything interesting). I...

This forum seems a good place to try a little experiment. It would be interesting to do this over a long-ish period of time, to see what we get. I have no ghost-hunting skills but what I do have is a fair, working knowledge of genealogy. For a while, I wrote a column for a now defunct magazine...

Relative of mine used to tell this story of a shoving ghost and I wondered how common it is? Her father died in the 1950s, and she was told she shouldn't go to the funeral because she was heavily pregnant. Not sure what the logic was there but the past is a foreign country, they do things...

Big Houdini fan here. I have always been intrigued by his idea to test mediums with a pre-arranged message from beyond the grave... (Which was never delivered). Now I find myself in the situation where a very close friend is terminally ill (currently in a hospice - still cogent but physically...