For Halloween: Ghosts, Highwaymen and the Terrible Tyburn Tree

For Halloween, do enjoy this digest of posts with a ghostly theme, along with a tale of Tyburn for good measure...

Just click on a link to enjoy a tale of terror...

By Luo Ping

A knocking ghost brings havoc and fear to 1818 London!

A deathly white spirit torments the residents of Bermondsey... 

A scheming exorcist stars scamming the gullible in 1807 Strasburgh!

A gory tale from 1824 sees a drunken priest go to town on a tongue... 

In 1791, a headless spectre robs a rector! 

Did a murderous 18th century witch really vanish into thin air? 

For Halloween... A dark tale of the Tyburn tree... 

Terrible screams plague an 18th century actress... 

Ghost Ships, Treasure and Tragedy... 

A scholarly spirit comes to Cambridge... 

Can the ghost of Madame Gould ever find rest?