THE MYSTERY OF PHANTOM LADIES

In updating Andrew Green’s classic 1977 book, ALAN MURDIE found that female spectres are as widespread, and difficult to identify, as ever–but what might they actually be?

“It has always interested me that the majority of ghosts reported in Britain consist of phantom ladies.” So began veteran ghost hunter Andrew Green (1927-2004) in Phantom Ladies, his 1977 gazetteer of places around the UK where the ghost was believed to be female. In it he listed places associated with an account of a ghostly lady, together with directions of how to reach the site. Green believed that ghosts were a real phenomenon, and his book was aimed at scientific ghost hunters. A great advocate for modernising the subject, he wanted to strip away colourful folklore and what he saw as outmoded and superstitious notions about spirits and to establish ghost hunting as a branch of parapsychology. Both Phantom Ladies and his previous nationwide gazetteer Our Haunted Kingdom (1973) concentrated…

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