Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, and its site has been occupied since the Bronze Age. It’s been a major port since the 19th century, and the Harland & Wolff shipyard built RMS Titanic here. It’s a city of much history, so it comes as no surprise that there are plenty of ghost stories…

Cardiff, capital of Wales, has a history that dates back some 6000 years. Naturally, it’s amassed a lot of legends in all that time. They include secret tunnels, the Beast of Leckwith, strange figures in Bute Park, phantom coaches, and a Royal Infirmary so haunted it needed an exorcism. Let’s explore some of Cardiff’s ghost…

In this 14th episode of Fabulous Folklore Presents, I chat with Dr Shepherd Siegel about the trickster archetype. Dr Siegel is the author of Tricking Power Into Performing Acts of Love: How Tricksters Through History Have Changed the World, an examination of the ways in which the trickster archetype appears across mythology and popular culture….

Arthur’s Seat is the ancient, extinct volcano that lies just a mile to the east of Edinburgh Castle. Myths cling to its peak like mist in the autumn, but one particular mystery is far from ancient. In 1836, some boys hunting rabbits on the hill found a strange hoard of miniature coffins hidden in a…

The Charterhouse area of London has played host to a monastery, a School, and university buildings…as well as the Charterhouse Plague Pit.  Yet the plague pit gave rise to schoolyard rumours in the nearby school, with the dead seemingly still screaming in their grave. Ghost sightings of monks give the tranquil square a slightly different…