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

                                            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 ...