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The Shepherd of Wansford Bridge
According to the tale, a local magician warns Barnaby, a shepherd who treats him kindly, that a flood is imminent, and that he should take his best sheep to the top of the church tower. He does so, and tolls the bell, which saves some of the villagers
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The Excise Officer
During late-nineteenth-century renovations, a male skeleton was discovered bricked into a cavity, alongside buttons bearing the Royal Insignia (or, according to some reports, wearing a full excise officer’s uniform). This has led to tales presupposing his (probable) grizzly demise, and reports of ghostly happenings.
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In My Pocket
A dim-witted giant and his clever, goodly dwarf friend go wandering, the dwarf in his friend’s pocket, and come across a field of sheep. Being hungry, they decide to eat some of them…
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The Lass that Saw her own Grave Dug
A lad called Fox courts a girl called Bessie, with sudden and apparently huge devotion, and arranges to meet her in the country by a tree. The night before they are to meet, Bessie has a strange premonitory dream, so she decides to get to the tree early and see what he is up to.
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The Read’s Island Werewolf
The story of a man who set himself up as a ferryman on Read’s Island ‘about 400 years ago’, and allegedly killed and ate many of his passengers. At trial, he is said to have taken on the form of a wolf.
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White Hart Hotel Ghosts
This former coaching inn has existed in one guise or another since at least the fourteenth century, and is associated with many ghost stories and anecdotes.
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 