Haunted Haworth

Haunted Haworth Ghost Tours with a local storyteller and folklorist around the historic village of Haworth
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06/09/2026



What do you call the man whose job it is to ensure that the graveyard is properly kept up?

The graveyard in-spectre!!

31/08/2026

I was given this bat detector, a little hand held device that translates the frequency of a bat's echo location to human audible range, by Emma of .. I tell you, I feel like a kid with his first microscope (I ***was*** that nerd). Thanks Emma!

Tomorrow (Sunday 2pm) is probably my last Horrible Haworth walk for a while. I've been doing them on a Sunday over the s...
29/08/2026

Tomorrow (Sunday 2pm) is probably my last Horrible Haworth walk for a while. I've been doing them on a Sunday over the school holidays as a bit of a trial. It's been fun, and I've learned a lot doing it. But I need a rest, and will focus on the ghost walks in the lead up to Halloween (63 sleeps!!)

Catherine Earnshaw’s delirium in Chapter 12 of Wuthering Heights is peak psychological horror. The scene of her pulling ...
21/08/2026

Catherine Earnshaw’s delirium in Chapter 12 of Wuthering Heights is peak psychological horror. The scene of her pulling feathers from the pillow - remembering the moors and Heathcliff while actively unraveling - is brilliant. Her comments about pigeon feathers ('Ah, they put pigeons' feathers in the pillows--no wonder I couldn't die ! Let me take care to throw it on the floor when I lie down.') are supported as folklore of the time by William George Black in the Folk-lore Journal Volume 1 1883, along with other folkloric references in the novel.

Following up on my post the other day about what I'd change on ghost tours... while the flashing gadgets are annoying, m...
20/08/2026

Following up on my post the other day about what I'd change on ghost tours... while the flashing gadgets are annoying, my absolute *biggest* bugbear is when guides just make stuff up for a cheap thrill! 🛑👻

For example: there's a tour that claims a young mill worker named John William Place took toxic medicine, ran from his house, and died in agony right on the cobbles of the village square. They even say his horrific screams and cries for help still haunt the area at night.

It sounds dramatic, but it is simply not true. The actual inquest and newspaper reports make it quite clear that poor John died at home. Yes, his death was tragic and horrible enough, but he didn't collapse in the square, and there are absolutely no genuine local tales of his cries haunting the area - because it just didn't happen.

We don't need to fabricate tragedies. Real social history is dark, fascinating, and dramatic enough on its own. And the ghost stories that organically entered our local folklore over centuries? They are infinitely more chilling and compelling than sensationalized fiction invented to sell tickets. They exist because of actual historic trauma.

Real life and real lore are more than enough. Have you ever been on a tour and thought, "Hang on, that didn't happen..."? Let me know below! 👇

It seems that although the limerick was not formally named as such until 1896, it had become a vessel for the transmissi...
19/08/2026

It seems that although the limerick was not formally named as such until 1896, it had become a vessel for the transmission of folklore earlier as evidenced by this little dirty found in Basildon and recorded in J. Horsfall Turner's Yorkshire Folklore Journal 1888

There was an old woman at Baildon,
Whose door had a horse-shoe nail'd on,
Because one night
They'd such a fright
With a boggart that was a horned and a tail'd 'un.

What's one thing you'd change about ghost tours?I wish guides would slow down and skip the gimmicky EMF meters until the...
18/08/2026

What's one thing you'd change about ghost tours?

I wish guides would slow down and skip the gimmicky EMF meters until they've given the site's real historical background. Sprinting for jump scares breaks the storytelling and stops people from connecting the social history with the hauntings.

What's your take... what would you change if you could?

I have added a couple of new tour dates for those of you who may be visiting outside of my usual weekend walks. First: T...
17/08/2026

I have added a couple of new tour dates for those of you who may be visiting outside of my usual weekend walks. First: Thursday 20th August. Next: Wednesday 9th September.

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