Fairies, folklore and forteana

Just where did all the weird ghosts go is a question that has been posed in Fortean Times. One answer might be Wales. Ghost hunter John Harries declared, “In order to meet a Welsh ghost one really nee

Fantasy author JRR Tolkien’s mythological Middle Earth takes inspiration from a number of places in Gloucestershire and the West Midlands. Tolkien frequently visited the Forest of Dean and its tempera

In the annals of high strangeness forteana, few cases are quite as strange as that of Sandown Sam. On a Tuesday afternoon in May 1973, a seven-year-old girl (given the pseudonym “Fay” in the BUFORA re

When friends who recently moved to west Devon invited us to see their new home, we decided to combine the visit with a brief autumn tour of the area, so we could explore the beautiful landscapes of Da

Its name sounds romantically dangerous, but is WILD BOAR FELL a beast or a beauty?

There’s nothing like a good walk to blow the cobwebs away. Lisa Kjellsson experiences the power of pilgrimage in majestic Yorkshire surroundings