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The Great Bell of Burgh
Inhabitants of Burgh le Marsh used to light a beacon to lure ships, hoping they would assume it marked the shore, would founder, and could then be pillaged. However, in 1629, as the Mary Rose rounded the shore, there was a significant storm, so the people decided instead…
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The East Halton Hob-Thrust
One morning, so this story goes, a farmer in East Halton got up early to bring his sheep to the barn for shearing – a task he had meant to do the night before – and noticed they were already in there, with a hare among them. He looked up to see the hob-thrust on…
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Greestone Stairs Ghosts
Several ghost stories are associated with the location, including that of a nun who allegedly lays a baby in a flowerbed, the stolen head of St Hugh bouncing down the steps after being dropped by a thief, and a cleric standing under a lamppost…
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Billy Shuffler & the Witches
A small boy is stolen by witches, ‘to be boiled in their cauldrons for the purpose of making charms of his bones’…
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The Thornton Abbey Ghost Monk
The skeleton of fourteenth-century abbot Thomas de Gretham is said to have been discovered in the 1830s, sitting at a table in a bricked-up alcove, before an open book, with a pen and ink beside it. According to legend…
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The Irby Boggle
On 1 November 1455, All Saints’ Day, betrothed couple Neville Randall and Rosamund Guy allegedly met in this beauty spot, and Rosamund was murdered by her fiancé. Both went missing, and stories arose that he had murdered her and fled.
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 