Category: Folklore
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🎃 Tale from Mereland: The Custodian’s Cottage
As Halloween settles over the Lake District, old stories stir back to life. The Custodian’s Cottage was one of my earliest tales, a ghost story born from the mist and ruins of Furness Abbey, where memory endures and the past never truly rests.
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Windermere’s Haunted History
The Claife Crier is one of the Lake District’s most haunting legends. A ghostly cry said to echo across Windermere from Claife Heights. In this post, I explore the 19th-century origins of the tale, from the 1852 Kendal Mercury account to Harriet Martineau’s Guide to the English Lakes, and how…
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Lake District Ghosts & Beasties
The restless spirit of a monk still haunts the legends of Windermere. Ghosts, folklore and Halloween tales linger in the Lake District, and my novel The Mereland Chronicles: The Crier explores the haunting origins behind the Claife Crier.
Paul J. Scribbans — Author 