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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.
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The Green Mist
The story of a young woman who grows thin and pale. She wants the green mist that signals spring to rise over the fields, believing it will restore her, but it doesn’t come. She expresses a desire to live like the cowslips that grow by the gate every year, and to die with the first…
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The Dragonby Dragon
The Dragonby ‘Dragon’ is a natural limestone formation, about ten metres long, with a discernible ‘head’ and ‘tail’. According to legend, it is the body of a dragon, turned to stone by a wizard…
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The Pilford Bridge Spirit
It was believed the ghost of a witch lurked beneath this bridge (or its precursor) over the River Ancholme, and would come out to push people into the water.
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The Strangers’ Share
This tale has something in common with ‘Tiddy mun’, which is also discussed on this map. It concerns the strangers, or ‘tiddy people’ – baby-sized beings with long arms, legs, and tongues, who wore green clothes and yellow bonnets…
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 