Ghost Stories and Mythical Tales from the village of Wroughton in Wiltshire

Paranormal Investigation at the Fox and Hounds, Wroughton 15/05/2017 Looking up The High Street Many apologies for taking so long to get this blog out. With the launch of my book ‘Seven for a Secret Never to be Told’ and subsequent promotion I don’t seem to have had a spare minute but hopefully this will make up for it. The investigation at The Fox and Hounds was prompted by a variety of disturbances at the premises. Doors found open when they’d been closed, items moved and the sound of children running and playing. There were also problems with lights turning on and off or blowing and pumps being switched off. The investigation was led by VIP Paranormal Investigations and attended by Paranormal Wiltshire, myself and the pub manager. The ‘Foxes Den’ a tastefully decorated dining area, (which was once the outside smoking area) was the base room, where plans for the evening were discussed and a host of various ghost detecting devices were tested and batteries charged ...

Ivery House Hello everyone. Joy here. It’s not until you start talking to people that you realise how many have experienced something inexplicable which they put down to the paranormal. I was chatting to a lady at the duck race on May Day who told me about an experience her sister had a long time ago. She’d woken up in the night to hear someone walking around her bed, but no one was there! What she didn’t know was that I already knew the story she’d told me. Except from a different person at a different time, and actually in a different house – but they are very old houses that happen to be next door to each other! Does this constitutes a paranormal experience? If we look at the history of the houses, is there a likely hood that both houses were once joined together leading to the shared experience in different houses? It’s a possibility, but equally, is it that the hot water pipes have been playing up under the floor boards for a number of years? In my last blog I wro...

                                            The Village of Wroughton Hello and welcome to my second Wroughton ghost blog. I had so many interesting responses to my last blog and as a result I'll be attending a ghost watch at a local pub and having a chat with the owner of a Wroughton haunted house. Coincidentally it’s the very house that my great grandparents once lived in, back in the 19 th century. I will report back on these experiences next time. The other interesting piece of information that came up after my last blog was the question, is taxine (the hallucinogenic gas released by yew trees in hot weather) visible? A long dead church warden had mentioned seeing something ghostly moving close to the old yew, but he was too far away to be affected by the gas. So, what if it's visible under certain conditions, like low air pressure, high moisture? Could it have ...

The Village of Wroughton The parish Church of John the Baptist and St Helen Modern Wroughton is a large village with a population of around 8,500 south of the Marlborough Downs and close to the ancient Ridgeway path in north Wiltshire. Historic landmarks litter the local landscape from Barbary’s Iron Age Hill Fort to Avebury’s Neolithic Stone Circle and the mysterious Silbury Hill. That this was once the thoroughfare of ancient people is not in dispute and so it is perhaps inevitable that Wroughton positioned as it is, would have its fair share of ghost stories and magical myths. In my experience, history, mystery and mythology are woven together and the stories of the ancients filter through to this modern, digital age in a variety of ways. The eureka moment when someone relates an unsettling other-worldly experience that I recognise as having resonance with an event that happened years ago or a person that existed in ...