Ghost of the Broads

[SweetKingfisher1]

Can I say,  I never thought Ghost stories of the Broads would be so interesting and for you all to get stuck into it  . 

 

It makes great reading, just like every topic on this forum  .

 

Regards

Marina  

[BroadScot]

Hi Marina, this is one many should know about I think?    http://norfolkcoast.co.uk/myths/ml_aclebridge.htm

 

 

Iain.

[SweetKingfisher1]

Morning Iain, yes the book I am reading has this one and many more, but what got me was the first story, about Wroxham Broad. All the ghost books I have read this is the first time I am hearing of this. ian is not none believer for ghost, where I know if one is around. Regards Marina ️

[Mowjo]

Marina! if you do a Google search for ghost of theNorfolk Broads there is loads of stuff,

 

Frank,,,

[donnygeoff]

Have been thinking about posting this, as it is not broads related as such, apart from one person involved......

 

On honeymoon ...

 

One morning at about 2:30am I turned over in bed, and came face to face with my wife, knelt at the side of the bed praying......

 

I said, what are you doing, get back into bed...

 

I then rolled over the other way and saw my wife asleep next to me, I turned straight back round and nothing was there.....

 

When we went down to breakfast, I mentioned it to my wife and the landlady overheard....

 

She went behind the bar and got an old photo of a picture of a woman.....

 

That's her, and you can see how I thought it was my wife, shoulder length dark wavy hair.....

 

The landlady then told me that when they took over the pub, she was told it was "haunted" but having not seen anything just dismissed it as an old wives tale.....

 

The location was Cawsand, Cornwall.....

The pub was The Ship Inn......

 

The photo was of Lady Hamilton........

 

The Ship inn is reputed to be the place Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson had their affair......

 

[SweetKingfisher1]

Hello Donnygeoff, what an experience and it doesn't matter it was not on the Broads. Great ghostly story  . Have you been back to that hotel?

 

Regarding 

Marina  

[BroadScot]

I stayed at a ghostly pub in York once, the only fright I got, was the bill with my breakfast!

 

 

Iain.

[donnygeoff]

Marina,

we have been back to Cawsand when on holiday in Cornwall,

Unfortunately about 5 years ago it closed down,

 

 

 

 

and even worse, at the end of 2013 it burnt down....

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ship-Inn-Cawsand/1429650667257915

 

[Bonzo]

In reply to the subject of the ghost at Acle Bridge:

 

Legend has it that many years ago there was a rather nasty character who lived in Acle who bullied his neighbours.

 

By all accounts, his neighbours ganged up on him, dragged him down to the old Acle Bridge, slit his throat and pulled his tongue through the slit giving him what is known as a Devil's Necktie. after that they hanged him over the bridge. His ghost is supposed to haunt the area around the date of his murder.

 

Now, What about Black Shuck? Purportedly being a large evil ghostly dog (not Bonzo)    :grin:  that roams the banks of the Broads on wet windy nights. The locals would not go out on such nights for fear of meeting it.

 

"From ghhoolies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night heaven preserve us" .

 

 

Whoooooooooo.     :eek: :eek:

[Bonzo]

By the way, on wet windy nights Bonzo is found in the nearest pub. 

[Bonzo]

Correction:

 

"From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggidy beasties heaven preserve us"

 

I forgot the long leggidy beasties and there are lots of them on the Broads.  

 

[MauriceMynah]

"I forgot the long leggidy beasties and there are lots of them on the Broads"

 

Mind you don't get done for storking

[Bonzo]

Nice one MM.     

[Rincewind]

Some good stories.

 

Aldeby moorings on the Waveney just along from the site of the old Haddiscoe swing bridge always feel a bit spooky to us. Probably more due to our over-active imagination than any documented ghostly legend though.