Paranormal London

by Gilly Pickup (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2018

  $16.59

  London's shadowed alleyways, ancient buildings and misty open spaces simply swarm with phantoms - spirits of the famous and the forgotten, the lovelorn, the loveless, the damned, the damnable. Paranormal London takes the bold ghost seeker on a hair-raising journey to visit and explore some of this capital's spookiest places. We visit the haunts of murderers, sail on a phantom boat and spot a poignant spectral soldier as he guards his fallen comrade. There are close encounters with chilling manifestations at infamous 50 Berkeley Square and the wails and tormented screams from Jack the Ripper's eternally restless victims as they roam the East End's cobbled streets. You can find a headless duke, visit the graves of plague victims and come into contact with an unseen force that tries to push you downstairs. These London spirits and phantoms come in all guises. Malevolent aristocrats, monks, nuns, actors, white, green and grey ladies, monarchs and wronged parlour maids too. Of course, there are no shortage of modern day ghosts as well as plenty of wicked poltergeists, headless horses, spectral pets and orbs galore, Where can you go - or avoid going - to see the Black Nun? Or the antique wheelchair that moves of its own accord terrifying those who hear its squeaking wheels approaching? What could you see from Westminster Bridge on nights when the silver moon pokes ghostly fingers through the blackness? Where have two people have been frightened to death - literally? Many of the city's most famous landmarks are haunted but hundreds of lesser well-known sites boast paranormal happenings - pubs, hotels, parks and tunnels, churches, roads, underground stations, banks, cinemas, council estates and the lake in St James' Park. If you are not a true believer in the paranormal when you start to read this book, you will be by the end!