I was 17, a trainee surveyor earning £5 a week. Faced with a week’s leave without much cash to spend, I decided to try hitchhiking with my mate Gordon. We started at the gates of Liverpool’s Stanley A

Giles Catchpole on riverside ghosts

I found Ben Timberlake’s article [FT465:38-41] about seeing gnome-like entities through a military night-vision sight rather interesting. Ben puts forward a theory about spores from fungi being a cont

I grew up surrounded by coffins. And after decades as a funeral director, it seems death isn’t always the end…

YOU can’t just throw it all in a skip, Mum!” Bryony’s voice was muffled by a dust mask as she crouched in the loft space, carefully avoiding bumping her head on the beams. She examined a battered trun

I’D just started work as a nurse and it was my first time living on my own. I managed to rent a tiny flat in Finchley. It came with a window box, a stray cat that hung around mewing for food, plus a n