Lost boys and girls

I’ve recently come to the end of editing The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore, with a team of international scholars. In fact, for much of the last two years, preparing this book, I’ve not been abl

Nine-year-old future star of the silent screen Charlie Chaplin, his mother Hannah, and older half-brother Sydney entered the Lambeth workhouse, south London, in July 1898. The boys were soon transferr

Waresley is a tiny picture-postcard Cambridgeshire village of about 200 inhabitants where you might think nothing exciting ever happens. And mostly, it doesn’t. But in 1965 it was the scene of one of

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

“Money isn’t funny” is a comedy maxim. But can it ever be ghostly? For example, how about when money drops from thin air? A ghost story about materialising cash sounds very odd, but it is what a trio