Recent posts in my Ghost Walks Category
June 17, 2009
"Diana, the ghost, and the cathedral" - Haunted St. Albans
It seems a long time ago now, but back in September and October last year when we were planning our move back to the UK, we considered St. Albans as a place we might choose to live, and so took a day trip there to have a scout around. Not any ordinary day trip, of course, because with a bit of digging around in local history and folklore, we managed to turn it into a ghost walk around the town....
May 4, 2009
On the I-Spy look-out for "Ghosts, Mysteries and Legends"
If you were puzzled by a couple of my tweets over the weekend, then let me reassure you that I haven't chucked in the web lark and become a professional ghost hunter. However, I am currently on the look-out for spooky stuff. Last week @bigchiefIspy recruited me into his I-Spy Tribe, by sending me an unsolicited copy of the 1995 Michelin "I-Spy Book of Ghosts, Mysteries & Legends". It is actually a little trickier than some of the more straightforward...
November 2, 2008
The Hexenturm Files...coming to Radio 4
You might recall that 18 months ago I was living in Salzburg, Austria, whilst working with Sony. At the time the joint blog that my wife and I write about our travels was called 'Some Edelweiss Of Our Own' rather than 'A lemon tree of our own'. Whilst in Salzburg, my better half wrote a series of articles which she called 'The Hexenturm Files'. She had noticed a picture of a spooky old building in the laundry she used on...
October 19, 2008
Haunted Amsterdam - Part 2
Yesterday I was writing about our experience going on the Amsterdam Ghost Walk whilst I was in the city for the Euro IA Summit. There were a couple of allegedly haunted places that we didn't get to see on the walk itself, and so we visited them under our own steam during our break in Amsterdam. The Wailing Tower Amsterdam's "Wailing Tower" was formerly part of the city's defensive walls, and used to be connected to The Waag by a...
October 18, 2008
Haunted Amsterdam
I was recently in Amsterdam for the Euro IA Summit, and on the night before the conference was due to begin, my wife surprised me with the present of a guided ghost walk around town. Long term readers may remember that back when I lived in London I used to quite regularly blog about the ghosts walks we went on around the streets of London. Our guide met us outside The Tara, which was a pleasant, if pricey, Irish pub....
October 12, 2008
Spooky shop on Hoe Street, Walthamstow
It appears that we might have a new ghost in Walthamstow - 'Spirits high despite the spooky visitors' Well, not a new ghost exactly, it apparently dates from the 1950s, and has been haunting a jewellers on Hoe Street in Walthamstow. There is a theory that it is the spirit of a young man who was murdered in the shop, but the local paper is appealing for anyone with more information about the building to come forward. It was the...
August 29, 2008
Currybetdotnet recent comments round-up 2008-08-29
Back in February and March of this year I did a series of articles about blog comments, and one of my suggestions was that doing an occasional round-up of interesting comments was a way of making sure they got attention, particularly if they had been left on older articles. One way or another I've been in a bit of an Internet connection black hole for the last five weeks or so, and it means that the moderating of comments on...
November 30, 2007
Haunted Cambridge - Part 2
Yesterday I started recounting a recent ghost walk of our own devising which my wife and I did in Cambridge. A lot of the source material comes from Geoff Yeates book "Cambridge College Ghosts", although the internet provided us with some extra stories. The fourth Cambridge college on our journey was Jesus College. It is a little way out from the main shopping centre of town, and as such is much more peaceful. We found a bench to sit on...
November 29, 2007
Haunted Cambridge
Every now and then I deviate from this blog's usual diet of newspapers, the BBC, RSS and moaning about badly broken websites, and move into the realms of the paranormal, with accounts of ghost walks I've done with my wife. I'm a sceptic myself, but I love the way ghost stories weave themselves into the fabric of local history, and given that lots of ghost stories revolve around haunted pubs or inns, I find the walks perfectly enjoyable. During our...
November 1, 2007
Haunted Clerkenwell
There can't be many occasions during married life where you get to lean in towards your wife in a dark alley in London, and utter the immortal phrase "Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane". But that's exactly what happened to me last week, when we were on a ghost walk near Farringdon. Yesterday I wrote about a ghost walk my wife and I did in London from St Pauls to the Barbican. The walk featured in Richard Jones' excellent "Walking Haunted...
October 31, 2007
Haunted St Paul's and Barbican - "The city of the dead"
With it being halloween tonight, I thought it an appropriate day to continue the stories of our recent ghost walks... During our recent stay in London we have done four of the walks from the Richard Jones "Walking Haunted London" book. Last week I wrote about our trip around Westminster, and a rather disappointing and long journey around Knightsbridge, Kensington and Notting Hill. Our third walk was called "City of the dead", and started off from St Paul's station to...
October 25, 2007
Haunted Knightsbridge, Kensington and Notting Hill
Long-term readers of currybetdotnet will know that as well as the usual technical and media bits'n'bobs on the site, I used to recount the ghost walks my wife and I went on in London, and further afield. Whilst we've been in London we've done a couple more walks from Richard Jones' excellent book "Walking Haunted London". Yesterday I wrote about our trip starting in Westminster, and today here is what happened when we walked around Haunted Kinghtsbridge, Kensington and Notting...
October 24, 2007
Haunted Westminster and Piccadilly
Long-term readers of this blog may recall that I used to regularly intersperse the usual mix of observation about websites, moaning about newspapers and wittering on about the slightest thing that my BBC team had done online with tales of the ghost walks that my wife and I did around London when we lived here permanently. Most of them were based on the book "Walking Haunted London" by Richard Jones, although we also made up our own route through Haunted...
February 23, 2007
Investigating the history of witches in Salzburg
Unlike the behemoth of the BBC, I seldom take the opportunity to cross-post to or cross-promote the blogs I contribute to, but I wanted to make an exception this week. Those of you who ever followed the posts on here about the ghost walks that I use to do in London, and in one case in Haunted Malta, with my wife, might be interested in a series of posts she has published this week on 'A lemon tree of our...
November 26, 2005
Haunted Liverpool Street to Mansion House
Last Christmas I bought my wife the book "Walking Haunted London" by Richard Jones. Since then we've been doing a few of the ghost walks in the book, which usually involves stopping in a good few haunted pubs for refreshment, which makes them a very enjoyable pastime in my book. Since we are shortly leaving the country, on Thursday night my wife and I made probably what will be our last ghost walk in London, following the route that Jones...
September 8, 2005
Haunted Walthamstow and Chingford
Followers of this site will know that my wife and I are no strangers to traipsing around bits of London looking for the locations of alleged hauntings - in fact currybetdotnet even has a Ghost Walks category. In all these trips though we have never investigated the haunted heritage of where we live and where I was born - Waltham Forest. So finding ourselves at a loss for somewhere exotic to stay over the bank holiday weekend, and wanting to...
August 29, 2005
Ghosts by Gaslight - A Big Bus Company Ghost Walk (and Pub Crawl)
A couple of weeks back my wife and I took one of the open-topped bus tours around London run by The Big Bus Company. As part of your ticket a few walks around the centre of town are thrown in. One of them is a ghost walk, so naturally we took them up on the offer. 'Ghosts by Gaslight' promises to be a pub crawl filled with grisly tales of London hauntings. It starts quite slowly, the first stop-off being...
August 1, 2005
Haunted Belgravia and Chelsea
I've mentioned before that at Christmas I bought my wife a book called "Walking Haunted London" by Richard Jones (who kindly posted a comment on one of my ghost walk commentaries), hoping we could learn more about London, and maybe capture a spooky experience at the same time. It also turns out that most of the haunted locations in London seem to be pubs, so it is quite a pleasant way to spend a Sunday afternoon. This weekend we did...
July 11, 2005
Haunted Malta
Our recent trip to Malta and Gozo would not have been complete without a spot of ghost-hunting. Before we went away my wife acquired a second-hand copy of 'The Ghosts Of Malta' by Joseph Attard. It wasn't, to be honest, the easiest of reads, as the prose style was quite difficult to get into. The thrust of the book was a narrative of how a newly independent Malta had shunned the heritage of ghost stories around the island as belonging...
July 10, 2005
Haunted Cockfosters and Enfield
Last Christmas I bought my wife the Richard Jones book "Walking Haunted London". It is a great excuse to wander around bits of London that we wouldn't otherwise visit on foot - and luckily for me, many of the haunted locations in this city of ours are pubs. This weekend we visited some of the haunted locations in Enfield. It is one of the walks in the book that is so spread out that Richard Jones doesn't specify a route,...
July 5, 2005
Haunted Great Portland Street and Theatreland
Last Christmas I bought my wife the Richard Jones book "Walking Haunted London". It is a great excuse to wander around bits of London that we wouldn't otherwise visIt on foot - and luckily for me, many of the haunted locations in this city are pubs. Last weekend we did the walk called 'Great Portland Street to Theatreland'. Our trip started with an exciting bit of transport drama. We got to the platform at Blackhorse Road to hear a tannoy...
May 31, 2005
Haunted Canterbury
Over the bank holiday weekend the wife and I headed out to Canterbury for an overnight stay, and a visit to some reputedly haunted places in the town. Canterbury does in fact have regular ghost walking tours on a Friday and a Saturday, but sadly we went on the Sunday, and so with a little bit of internet research we rolled our own mini-tour of spooky hot-spots. Our first stop was naturally the main attraction of the city - Canterbury...
April 28, 2005
Haunted Holborn
I've mentioned before that at Christmas I bought my wife a book called "Walking Haunted London" by Richard Jones, hoping we could learn more about London, and maybe capture a spooky experience at the same time. It also turns out that most of the haunted locations in London seem to be in pubs, so it is quite a pleasant way to pass the time. Last week, before heading to Malta on holiday, my wife and I did the walk in...
April 11, 2005
Haunted Chiswick
I've mentioned before that at Christmas I bought my wife a book called "Walking Haunted London" by Richard Jones (who kindly posted a comment on my last ghost walk commentary), hoping we could learn more about London, and maybe capture a spooky experience at the same time. It also turns out that most of the haunted locations in London seem to be pubs, so it is quite a pleasant way to spend a Sunday afternoon in my book. This weekend...
April 6, 2005
Haunted Highgate
I've mentioned before that at Christmas I bought my wife a book called "Walking Haunted London" by Richard Jones, hoping we could learn more about London, and maybe capture a spooky experience at the same time. It also turns out most of the haunted locations in London are pubs that serve food, so it is quite a pleasant way to spend a Sunday afternoon in my book. Our first trip was to Hampstead, and this weekend, although we are not...
March 27, 2005
Haunted Hampstead
At Christmas I bought my wife a book called "Walking Haunted London" by Richard Jones, with the aim of getting to know London a bit better by visiting these haunted places. With spring arriving we made our first trip today - to Hampstead. We skipped the first pub on the haunted agenda - the William IV - as especially with the clocks changing it was too early to start having a drink. Instead our first main stop was the Parish...