HAUNTED YORK NOW AVAILABLE DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER If you’re having any difficulty obtaining a copy of Haunted York please be advised that the book is now available directly from the publisher, Halsgrove Books. Fully illustrated and including an abundance of maps for your own guided walk aro…

There is a ghostly black hound that haunts the snickets and back streets of York known as a Barguest, the name thought to derive from the north of England pronunciation of ‘ghost’ as ‘guest’ and combined with burh, a fortified settlement; thus we have burh-ghest or ‘town-ghost’. A particularly…

Paranormal Magazine was founded By Lee Steer and Wayne Ridsdel in 2013 and following some TV work for Sky’s Showcase Channel 212 [1] in 2016 they have come into possession (I use the word advisedly) of some haunted objects. A list on their website includes such creepy items as an Exorcist’s Bible pu…

Local online publication York Mix can be commended for never being shy to write up a ghost story and if you missed their coverage of the Golden Fleece’s closure in September (not, I hasten to point out, as a result of spectral disturbance, but rather the need to prevent the building falling down) th…

This being the inaugural entry of the Haunted York News and Journal page I would like, if you will allow, to extend not just a hearty welcome but also an invitation to partake.This need be nothing more than the occasional comment or heartfelt hello, but should you have been fortunate (or, and I sinc…