The Ghost Monk
@theghostmonk.bsky.social
Enthusiast of British (mainly) ghostlore, folklore and vintage ghost and weird fiction. Collector of old magazines. Also keen on prehistoric monuments, old churches and suchlike. Am decidedly Q. All scans/photos my own (unless stated). Runs #PhantomsFriday
A remarkably spooky illustration for 'Under The Sunset' by Bram Stoker, 1882.
#PhantomsFriday #gothic #BramStoker #Victorian #ghost
#PhantomsFriday #gothic #BramStoker #Victorian #ghost
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A remarkably spooky illustration for 'Under The Sunset' by Bram Stoker, 1882.
#PhantomsFriday #gothic #BramStoker #Victorian #ghost
#PhantomsFriday #gothic #BramStoker #Victorian #ghost
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In some variations of the Banshee, she is said to be the #spirit of a murdered woman. 🪦 The Scottish version, aka the Bean Nighe, is more specifically the #ghost of a woman who died during childbirth. #PhantomsFriday
🎨 The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862)
🎨 The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862)
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In some variations of the Banshee, she is said to be the #spirit of a murdered woman. 🪦 The Scottish version, aka the Bean Nighe, is more specifically the #ghost of a woman who died during childbirth. #PhantomsFriday
🎨 The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862)
🎨 The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862)
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Anne Boleyn's spectral carriage is said to race past Blickling Hall every May 19th. At Hever Castle, her ghost is seen gliding over the River Eden bridge on Christmas Eve and under the oak tree where she and Henry VIll once courted.
art by Barrie Morris #PhantomsFriday
art by Barrie Morris #PhantomsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anne Boleyn's spectral carriage is said to race past Blickling Hall every May 19th. At Hever Castle, her ghost is seen gliding over the River Eden bridge on Christmas Eve and under the oak tree where she and Henry VIll once courted.
art by Barrie Morris #PhantomsFriday
art by Barrie Morris #PhantomsFriday
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"Let me in—let me in! I've come home, I'd lost my way on the moor… I've been a waif for twenty years!"
Wuthering Heights
#phantomsfriday
Wuthering Heights
#phantomsfriday
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"Let me in—let me in! I've come home, I'd lost my way on the moor… I've been a waif for twenty years!"
Wuthering Heights
#phantomsfriday
Wuthering Heights
#phantomsfriday
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November 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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A pirate treasure is rumored to be buried somewhere on Mississippi’s Deer Island, but it has never been found. According to local legend, this treasure is guarded by a headless skeleton who chases away anyone who gets too close to its hiding place. #PhantomsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A pirate treasure is rumored to be buried somewhere on Mississippi’s Deer Island, but it has never been found. According to local legend, this treasure is guarded by a headless skeleton who chases away anyone who gets too close to its hiding place. #PhantomsFriday
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I've added a new feature to my interactive ghost map. You can now select a town from the drop down menu (see the red ellipse in the graphic below) and you will be taken straight to it. I'll add to the menu from time to time.
www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...
#phantomsfriday
www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...
#phantomsfriday
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I've added a new feature to my interactive ghost map. You can now select a town from the drop down menu (see the red ellipse in the graphic below) and you will be taken straight to it. I'll add to the menu from time to time.
www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...
#phantomsfriday
www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...
#phantomsfriday
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Newton House at Dinefwr, another National Trust property where the staff were exceeding helpfully in discussing paranormal experiences.
#phantomsfriday
Ghost Map Info: www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...
#phantomsfriday
Ghost Map Info: www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Newton House at Dinefwr, another National Trust property where the staff were exceeding helpfully in discussing paranormal experiences.
#phantomsfriday
Ghost Map Info: www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...
#phantomsfriday
Ghost Map Info: www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...
Two ghostly portals - the left at Lilleshall, #Shropshire, the other at Malmesbury, #Gloucestershire. Their #ghosts are just a few of my fellow Ghost Monks pottering about, but since the photos were scanned from 'Abbeys', the 1925 book by M R James, I felt they were worth posting for #PhantomsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Two ghostly portals - the left at Lilleshall, #Shropshire, the other at Malmesbury, #Gloucestershire. Their #ghosts are just a few of my fellow Ghost Monks pottering about, but since the photos were scanned from 'Abbeys', the 1925 book by M R James, I felt they were worth posting for #PhantomsFriday
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A great cover for this Will Eisner book that retells (mostly ?) famous true #ghoststories! #hauntings #PhantomsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A great cover for this Will Eisner book that retells (mostly ?) famous true #ghoststories! #hauntings #PhantomsFriday
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Piarist School in Alella (Barcelona)
This religious school welcomed both boarding and day students, and was one of the most renowned of its time. The facilities still retain some of their former beauty...
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
This religious school welcomed both boarding and day students, and was one of the most renowned of its time. The facilities still retain some of their former beauty...
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Piarist School in Alella (Barcelona)
This religious school welcomed both boarding and day students, and was one of the most renowned of its time. The facilities still retain some of their former beauty...
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
This religious school welcomed both boarding and day students, and was one of the most renowned of its time. The facilities still retain some of their former beauty...
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
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The Cauld Lad of Hilton (Co Durham) is as much household #fairy as he is #ghost. A tale of a murdered boy's body being hidden in a pond had him moaning 'Cauld, aye cauld, forever more!' But, in fairy-like fashion, when clothes were laid out for him, he quit the castle.
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Cauld Lad of Hilton (Co Durham) is as much household #fairy as he is #ghost. A tale of a murdered boy's body being hidden in a pond had him moaning 'Cauld, aye cauld, forever more!' But, in fairy-like fashion, when clothes were laid out for him, he quit the castle.
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
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The Day's Doings #331, September 26, 1874
"Adventure and Vision of a Pike's Peak Tourist"
A tourist at Pike's Peak was injured by a fall, and overnight was visited by "beautiful and passing strange" phantoms of "some very nice ladies" who were "exceedingly delicate and diaphanous". #phantomsfriday
"Adventure and Vision of a Pike's Peak Tourist"
A tourist at Pike's Peak was injured by a fall, and overnight was visited by "beautiful and passing strange" phantoms of "some very nice ladies" who were "exceedingly delicate and diaphanous". #phantomsfriday
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The Day's Doings #331, September 26, 1874
"Adventure and Vision of a Pike's Peak Tourist"
A tourist at Pike's Peak was injured by a fall, and overnight was visited by "beautiful and passing strange" phantoms of "some very nice ladies" who were "exceedingly delicate and diaphanous". #phantomsfriday
"Adventure and Vision of a Pike's Peak Tourist"
A tourist at Pike's Peak was injured by a fall, and overnight was visited by "beautiful and passing strange" phantoms of "some very nice ladies" who were "exceedingly delicate and diaphanous". #phantomsfriday
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Something different for #phantomsfriday - this HOT MALE ghost from the cover of Time Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown, 1989. Keep back ladies, he’s married! Sorry, “buried”. Because he’s dead.
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Something different for #phantomsfriday - this HOT MALE ghost from the cover of Time Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown, 1989. Keep back ladies, he’s married! Sorry, “buried”. Because he’s dead.
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“The sooner we get out of this spooky old joint, the better I like it.” ~ The Three Stooges in 'The Ghost Talks'. This funny 1949 short starred Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, and Moe Howard.
#PhantomsFriday #40s
#PhantomsFriday #40s
November 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
“The sooner we get out of this spooky old joint, the better I like it.” ~ The Three Stooges in 'The Ghost Talks'. This funny 1949 short starred Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, and Moe Howard.
#PhantomsFriday #40s
#PhantomsFriday #40s
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In Flanders, it was thought that during heavy winter storms, the wailing of damned souls could be heard in the wind.
🎨Léonard Misonne
#FolkyFriday
🎨Léonard Misonne
#FolkyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
In Flanders, it was thought that during heavy winter storms, the wailing of damned souls could be heard in the wind.
🎨Léonard Misonne
#FolkyFriday
🎨Léonard Misonne
#FolkyFriday
A perfectly acceptable repost for #PhantomsFriday, I feel. Words from the great man himself (by which I also mean John Silence).
#ghost #ghosts #AlgernonBlackwood
#ghost #ghosts #AlgernonBlackwood
"Not far removed from the region of our human life is another region where floats the waste and drift of all the centuries, the limbo of the shells of the dead."
Algernon Blackwood, 'A Psychical Invasion'
#ghost #ghosts #ghoststory #weird #weirdfiction #horror #spritualism #BookChatWeekly #booksky
Algernon Blackwood, 'A Psychical Invasion'
#ghost #ghosts #ghoststory #weird #weirdfiction #horror #spritualism #BookChatWeekly #booksky
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A perfectly acceptable repost for #PhantomsFriday, I feel. Words from the great man himself (by which I also mean John Silence).
#ghost #ghosts #AlgernonBlackwood
#ghost #ghosts #AlgernonBlackwood
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Fragment of a Ghost Story by P.B. Shelley
Often mistaken for Percy's entry to the famous Villa Diodati ghost story competition of 16 June 1816, that saw the drafts for Polidori's Vampyre and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Sadly, no text by Percy survives.
#PhantomsFriday #poetry #gothic #booksky
Often mistaken for Percy's entry to the famous Villa Diodati ghost story competition of 16 June 1816, that saw the drafts for Polidori's Vampyre and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Sadly, no text by Percy survives.
#PhantomsFriday #poetry #gothic #booksky
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Fragment of a Ghost Story by P.B. Shelley
Often mistaken for Percy's entry to the famous Villa Diodati ghost story competition of 16 June 1816, that saw the drafts for Polidori's Vampyre and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Sadly, no text by Percy survives.
#PhantomsFriday #poetry #gothic #booksky
Often mistaken for Percy's entry to the famous Villa Diodati ghost story competition of 16 June 1816, that saw the drafts for Polidori's Vampyre and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Sadly, no text by Percy survives.
#PhantomsFriday #poetry #gothic #booksky
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"... hear my plaint of dead men's hate intolerable. Me, sternly slain by them that should have loved...Hewn down in blood by matricidal hands. Mark ye these wounds from which the heart's blood ran". Clytemnestra's spectre calls on the Furies to exact revenge on her killer/her son #PhantomsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
"... hear my plaint of dead men's hate intolerable. Me, sternly slain by them that should have loved...Hewn down in blood by matricidal hands. Mark ye these wounds from which the heart's blood ran". Clytemnestra's spectre calls on the Furies to exact revenge on her killer/her son #PhantomsFriday
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In the early twentieth century there were a number of sightings of a ghost on the road from Shipston to Stratford nr the gates of Alscot Park. On one occasion a man saw it walk in front of his car and thru the park wall.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
In the early twentieth century there were a number of sightings of a ghost on the road from Shipston to Stratford nr the gates of Alscot Park. On one occasion a man saw it walk in front of his car and thru the park wall.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
In Gilbert Watson's weird tale 'The Face In The Jungle' (Pall Mall Magazine, 1907), the weirdest things are actually the feet in the jungle - the ghostly echo of horrible cruelty meted out to an Indian dancing girl.
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #weirdtale
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #weirdtale
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
In Gilbert Watson's weird tale 'The Face In The Jungle' (Pall Mall Magazine, 1907), the weirdest things are actually the feet in the jungle - the ghostly echo of horrible cruelty meted out to an Indian dancing girl.
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #weirdtale
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #weirdtale
Striking illustration of Oscar Wilde's 'Canterville Ghost' by the great Charles Keeping.
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #OscarWilde #CharlesKeeping #BookChatWeekly #artsky
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #OscarWilde #CharlesKeeping #BookChatWeekly #artsky
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Striking illustration of Oscar Wilde's 'Canterville Ghost' by the great Charles Keeping.
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #OscarWilde #CharlesKeeping #BookChatWeekly #artsky
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #OscarWilde #CharlesKeeping #BookChatWeekly #artsky
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The spectral black dog pads its way across international folklore. In Flanders Die Roden Ogen, in Germany the Roggenwolf, in S America El Cadeho. Known by various names across the UK, in Suffolk we know him as the Shuck. His claw marks can still be seen on church doors…
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The spectral black dog pads its way across international folklore. In Flanders Die Roden Ogen, in Germany the Roggenwolf, in S America El Cadeho. Known by various names across the UK, in Suffolk we know him as the Shuck. His claw marks can still be seen on church doors…
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
The medieval wooden font in the little church at Efenechtyd in North #Wales. It's a lovely thing: the colour of treacle and invitingly tactile. Exceedingly rare, it's survival is probably due to the fact that the great Welsh folklorist and antiquarian Elias Owen was vicar here.
#FontsOnFriday
#FontsOnFriday
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The medieval wooden font in the little church at Efenechtyd in North #Wales. It's a lovely thing: the colour of treacle and invitingly tactile. Exceedingly rare, it's survival is probably due to the fact that the great Welsh folklorist and antiquarian Elias Owen was vicar here.
#FontsOnFriday
#FontsOnFriday