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Her ghost has been seen during the day, at dusk and at night time. The same apparition, the ghost of a woman in a ‘winding sheet’, is said to rise out of the ground and roam the ‘hills and holes’ of the Weybourne area while at nearby North Repps are several water-filled hollows which also bear the name of the Shrieking Pits, this time named for another wailing woman, whose change of heart after a suicide attempt fell on deaf ears. Further tales suggest that an entire horse and cart have...

Her ghost has been seen during the day, at dusk and at night time. The same apparition, the ghost of a woman in a ‘winding sheet’, is said to rise out of the ground and roam the ‘hills and holes’ of the Weybourne area while at nearby North Repps are several water-filled hollows which also bear the name of the Shrieking Pits, this time named for another wailing woman, whose change of heart after a suicide attempt fell on deaf ears. Further tales suggest that an entire horse and cart have...

The weird folklore and ghost stories that haunt Norfolk and Suffolk's waterways and coastline

The weird folklore and ghost stories that haunt Norfolk and Suffolk's waterways and coastline

Eileen Gallagher relates how a friend of hers – named Janice – underwent, decades ago, some sort of very traumatic, late-night encounter with a British man-beast in the picturesque village of Child’s Ercall. Found in north Shropshire, Child’s Ercall has origins that date right back to Celtic times and its church – St. Michael’s – to the 12 th Century. But, in all of its many years, the village surely never before, and maybe never since too, encountered such a strange beast as that...