Isle of Wight Ghost Encounters. Famous and Forgotten

Oct
03
Photo image of Dimbola Lodge Museum, Freshwater. Former home of photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron.

Dimbola Lodge, Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams

Visitors of sensitive disposition smell unearthly chemical vapours wafting through Dimbola Lodge Museum, and wonder if it is haunted by the ghost of Mrs Cameron, still busy with her work.
7 min read
Sep
27
Engraved print illustration of the Loss of the Clarendon off Blackgang October 1836.

St. Andrews Church Chale. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams

A ghost girl is seen passing the graveyard of St Andrews where the drowned from the Clarendon shipwreck lay buried.
8 min read
Oct
03
Photo image of Nunwell House, Ashey. Isle of Wight

Nunwell House. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

Nunwell House's most famous haunting is a ghostly Grey Lady wafting and weeping through the elegant rooms. Guests guess it is an Oglander, but which one?
8 min read
Sep
19
Photo image of Tennyson Monument, High Down, Freshwater isle of Wight.

Freshwater Bay. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

A ghostly figure is sometimes seen haunting High Down near the Tennyson monument. Not so long ago an attempted ambush revealed the ghost's identity.
9 min read
Sep
16
Photo image of Yarmouth Castle, George Inn and St. James' church. Isle of Wight.

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

Sometimes seen roaming Yarmouth's streets between castle and the church is a ghost who quite literally came back to haunt the town.
5 min read
Sep
03
Photo image of St. Catherine's Oratory tower, Blackgang Isle of Wight

St. Catherine's Tower. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

The haunted tower. Ghostly lantern glow sometimes is seen in St. Catherine's lighthouse tower. To whom does it signal and why?
7 min read