I’m Owl About Them Owls

After reading Alan Garner’s “The Owl Service” recently I went on to learn about the Welsh myth of Blodeuwedd. Then I went on a deep-dive into the folklore surrounding owls…

The Crow King and the Tengu

Whilst I was halfway through writing a book of short stories (still a work in progress) about a particular character, “The Crow King” – a sort of minor bird-god – that I found out about the Tengu, and noticed a bizarre and uncanny resemblance. I thought I’d share my findings and how this serendipity occurred here.

Most Haunted Places in the UK and Its Environs

Some ghostly and historical tidbits about the most haunted locations in the country in which I fester (and places surrounding that).

The Coldness of Ghosts

A sudden drop in temperature is often associated with hauntings. The question is why? We also look at Mary King’s Close.

Ghostly Force Fields

How come ghosts are associated with high EMFs (electromagnetic frequencies)? Do the EMFs provide the “ghosts” or do the ghosts cause higher EMFs? Let’s investigate…

Adventures in Automatic Writing

otherwise known as Psychography Automatic writing is claimed to be a method of communicating with spirits, or the subconscious, using writing implements and often a trance state. The belief is that spirits take control of the medium’s writing-hand to put words and marks on paper, sometimes in a foreign language or in a strange alphabet.Continue reading “Adventures in Automatic Writing”