Eldon Hole lies on a hillside on a remote farm near the Derbyshire village of Peak Forest. It was always believed to be a genuine...

Something strange crouches in a corner of the Three Stag's Heads inn near Wardlow Mires in the Derbyshire Peak District. A mummified cat...

Odd things lurk in the back alleys and yards of our cities. In Worcester this strange head with its pained expression is set into an...

The Cotswolds area of England has some of the highest concentrations of ancient sites in the whole of Britain. Stone circles, standing...

Belvoir Castle is a simply magnificent stately home that stands on a prominent hilltop just inside Leicestershire. Although beginning its...

The Black Alchemist was a book written by Andrew Collins in 1988 which went on to become something of a cult classic. To briefly...

The Hawk Stone is a solitary megalith that stands at the edge of a field in Oxfordshire, near the village of Dean. The name might ring a...

I recently had a chat with the Folklore Dark ladies for their podcast, have a watch/listen if you'd like. We talked about a lot of...

Minster Lowell is an absolutely beautiful village that nestles next to the River Windrush in England's Cotswolds region, but its most...

Situated on a wooded hill on the outskirts of the city of Worcester, the Church of St Nicholas is a landmark familiar to many as they...

Haunted roads have always been a part of British supernatural folklore, with the Midlands of England being no exception. A minor stretch...

Wigston is a suburb of the southern edge of the city of Leicester. Once a separate town in its own right before being absorbed into the...

The modern urban sprawl isn't usually the place where you'd find an ancient megalithic monument, but off a roundabout between a branch of...

I mentioned the church at Breedon-on-the-Hill in my last post as it used to be commonly said that an effigy of the griffin of Griffydam...

Griffydam is a village that lies in the countryside of Northwest Leicestershire, and its strange name has an even stranger origin. Along...

The Mug House is a pub that serves the village of Claines just outside the city of Worcester. It is one of just two pubs in all of...

A little stone circle lies almost unnoticed on the windswept moor under Stanage Edge in the Derbyshire Peak District. Hordrons Edge is...

The little village of Mordiford sits nestled inside a double bend in the river Lugg, deep in the heart of Herefordshire. It is perhaps...

Ritual protection marks and symbols, or "witch marks", are a well-known sight on the older buildings of the Midlands. Thought to be...

Wassail is a folk tradition in England that is very much separate from the Wassail people around the world are familiar with. Rather than...