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Oct
28
Photo mage of St. Helen's Church tower, St. Helens, Isle of Wight.

St. Helens. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

Tall tales of ghosts and legends accrue like mist to this old church tower in St. Helens. A whopper of an untold story features an A-List celebrity Roman resident.
5 min read
Oct
25
Photo image of Old Post Office. Main Road, Brighstone. Isle of Wight.

The Belgae. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

Old maps identify an area of the island as definitively Celtic. Chances are a rich DNA vein runs through its residents to whom we owe not only our belief in ghosts, but acceptance of religion.
5 min read
Oct
24
Photo image of enrance to Blackgang Chine Fantasy Park, Blackgang Road, Isle of Wight

Blackgang Chine. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

A ghostly figure is sometimes seen on the old road to Niton that leads past the Blackgang Chine fantasy park. Some ghost-hunters say it is the doomed spirit of a wrecker who lured ships onto Blackgang's ship-destroying underwater ledge.
5 min read
Oct
22
Photo image of Knighton Gorges gateposts. All that remain of the island's finest house.

Knighton Gorges House. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams

Most extraordinary ghost site on the Isle of Wight is Knighton Gorges manor, not least because no such house exists. But sometimes it appears, Brigadoon-like. Locked Haunted Room and everything.
5 min read
Oct
15
Photo image of Old Sun Inn building, Holyrood St. Newport. Isle of Wight.

Newport. Sun Inn. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

No one living stayed for long in this building. Intensity of paranormal acivity too much for everyone. Site of the former Sun Inn, and possible location of King Charles' last night in Newport tragedy.
6 min read
Oct
15
Photo image of the Old Grammar School. St. James Street Newport. Isle of Wight.

Newport Old Grammar School. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams

Ghost-spotters report sighting a candle-lit figure with sad Spaniel eyes gazing out from windows in Newport's Old Grammar School. Some believe it is a trapped royal.
6 min read
Oct
13
Photo Image of Carisbrooke Castle Battlements above King Charles' prison room.

Carisbrooke Castle. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

A sinister spectral figure sometimes is seen drifting along this battlements walk in Carisbrooke Castle. Guesses gather like mist around the mystery of its identity.
6 min read
Oct
12
Newport Church Litten. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

Newport Church Litten. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

A bonnet-wearing ghost sometimes is seen wafting the paths of Church Litten park. A fashion accessory which dates her as a late addition to the old burial ground below.
5 min read
Oct
10
Photo image of Shanklin Chine and Fisherman's Cottage Inn, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.

Shanklin. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

Shanklin Chine is one of the scenic wonders of Wight. Great poets almost oded about it, and probably would have if the ghost of Keats Cottage guest-house hadn't stolen the poet's best lines before he died.
5 min read
Oct
09
Photo image of Church of St. Mary the Virgin, and the Old Rectory Mansion, Brading. Isle of Wight.

Brading. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

No one knows what happened to the image of the Virgin Mary that stood in a niche above the door of St. Mary's church. Detectorists believe she was probably not the first holy Virgin to be worshipped and removed from historic Brading.
5 min read