Haunted Haworth Blog

“I sometimes dream melancholy dreams,” answered Caroline; “and if I lie awake for an hour or two in the night, I am continually thinking of the rectory as a dreary

Folk tell of the ghostly crying of a young woman heard in the car park behind the Black Bull in Haworth. The car park was once the location of an

The Brontë children’s nursemaid, Tabitha Ackroyd, had an intimate knowledge of the lore of the land and its spirits. She knew folk who had seen the fairies that frequented the

Haworth has, as far as I am aware, four carved stone heads adorning several of its buildings. The heads are all different ages and we know little of their purpose.

The soil of the islands of Britain can be said to be soaked in the folklore of the spectral black dog. Mark Norman’s “Black Dog Folklore” lists sightings from Aberdeenshire