Ghost Stories

Staffordshire
Ghost Stories

A collection of eerie tales, haunted places and local legends from Staffordshire, bringing together apparitions, unexplained happenings and stories rooted in the area’s history and landscape.

ISBN9781902674988
Pages80
FormatPaperback
RRP£4.99
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About the book

Haunted places and local stories

This compact Bradwell collection explores ghost stories associated with Staffordshire. The book moves through houses, historic buildings, towns and landscapes, combining local history with supernatural tradition and reported encounters.

Short, location-based stories make it easy to dip into, whether you know the area well or are discovering its darker side for the first time.

  • Local places — stories tied to recognisable towns, buildings and landscapes.
  • Ghosts and legends — apparitions, strange happenings and long-told traditions.
  • Easy to browse — concise stories suited to reading at home or while exploring.

Inside the book

Ghosts of Tutbury Castle
The gypsy’s curse: Alton Towers
Buried alive: Stone and Rushton Spencer
The rector’s widow: Checkley
Ghosts of Uttoxeter
Lud’s church
The girl in Brough Park: Leek
The Mermaid’s Pool: Thorncliffe
The highland drummer boy: Tompkin
Red stockings: Wetwood
Molly Leigh: Burslem
Ghost in a police hostel: Baswich
Mysteries of the shepherd’s monument: Shugborough
The bloody steps: Rugeley
The skeleton tree: Hednesford
The horn dance: Abbots Bromley
The laughing cavalier and entombed Elspeth: Lichfield
A last visit from a friend: Elford
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