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Superb! Neil Williams, I take it? It's weird, I read your interview in Nightmare Abbey 4 from 2023 earlier this month where you mentioned wanting to do a Terror Tales of Christmas, and two days later David Howe posted that it was impending. #serendipity #terrifyingworldofHauntedBenchProject
September 26, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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#mementomori #StGeorgeintheEast #Shadwell, Nov 9, 2021.
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© Marion Bondage Photo Library
Memento Mori
December 3, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Autumn-Winter 1972 issue of #Mudflaps fanzine is a #supernatural special, no less. 24 pages of news reports & articles interspersed with pre-WWI non-spine chilling phantom cyclist fiction. #scrapbooksfromfanzineland #ghosts #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
Cover of Mudflaps fanzine. Blurry illustration of a cyclist outpacing a ghost rider.
January 31, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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This used to be my playground. More Bride of Dem shots of #HighgateCemeteryW #alifeofmorbidity #terrifyingworldofHauntedBenchProject
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Much postponed rematch with St. Mary's Harrow on the Hill, Grimsdyke H.Weald and places of interest inbetween now scheduled for tomorrow. #communing_with_ghosts #graves #derelictpubgarden #MaryShelley #HauntedHarrow #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
June 2, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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#mementomori #StGeorgeintheEast #Shadwell November 2021
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© Marion Bondage/ Haunted Bench Photo Library
Tombstone depicting skull & crossbones
July 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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a haunted christmas & a ghastly new year to all our reader. #ghostsoncamera #wapping #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
Ghosts on camera. Irrefutable photographic evidence of supernatural activity in the Graveyard on Wapping Lane, 31 October 2025. Photo by Bride of Dem.
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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The Ghost on the Roundabout #HauntedHarrow #BelmontCircle ghost_on_the_roundabout #Belmontflasher #urbanlegend #HauntedHarrow #GraveyardGhoul #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
The Ghost on the roundabout. A brief account by 'Old Parishioner' A flasher in action (Parental guidance advised) Bernett Fashions, Belmont Circle.
December 9, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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Haunted Bench action! Demon Baby found and hastily returned to a Tyneside park. A drinking pal's nerve-shredding experience story as recalled by columnist Gordon Host in 'Shields Gazette', 21 September 2000 #parkwatch #theOmen #Its_Alive!#terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
News item concerning abandoned baby recovered then promptly returned to a park bench whereupon its eyes went horrible and it burst into hideous, demonic laughter. From 'Shields Gazette', 21 September 2000
January 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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#nonemoreGothic Monk Lewis's 'The Castle Spectre' as reproduced in 'The Hour of One: Six Gothic Melodramas' introduced by Stephen Wischhusen (Gordon Fraser, 1975) #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
The ghost in white muslin dress appears before Angela. A dramatic scene from 'The Castle Spectre.'!
December 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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#ScrapbooksfromFanzineland update. Murder in the Red Barn Bedside Companion: Vol 2 (Squatney University Press, Shadwell, March 2026). Vol 3 in prep, as is Haunted Benchland #2. #WilliamCorder #MariaMartin #MurderinRedBarn #TerrifyingWorldofHauntedBenchProject etc. Seek out on Vault if inclined.
Maria Marten looking glam on cover of 'Murder in the Red Barn Bedside Companion' Vol 2. Logo Chrissie Demant & Gloomy Sundae.
April 10, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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9.20am. D3 bus waiting at Chapman St stop, E1. Approaching it from the front, I could see passengers at the back. Get on, and there's no-one but morose driver & me. Felt like I was the passenger in a phantom bus to the graveyard story. "We're gonna crash!" #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
Still from 'Last days of Trolley bus 666.' 'Gorgo' on at a cinema near you.
May 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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... Same phantom also sighted seemingly "looking for something" on ground by the entrance to the underpass on Courtenay Gardens.
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Underpass, Courtenay Gdns,
November 18, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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A new bench to haunt. The Case is Altered, Old Redding, on Wed 4th. Closed in 2022, beginning to show signs of wear and tear, and personal favourite ... haunt. It's a soul thing. #ghostlyvibes #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
The currently out of commission Case is Altered, Old Redding, Harrow Weald, 4 Nov 2025. Unspeakably dull photo by Nice Kev. No ©. Feel free to use it. Same again.
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Press report relating to the Hanwell Haunted House, "Middlesex County Times," 13 May 1922. #HauntedHouse #Hanwell #terrifyingworldofHauntedBenchProject
"HAUNTED COTTAGE CONDEMNED AS UNFIT FOR HABITATION Hanwell's "haunted house" may be demolished shortly. It is No. 2. Half Acre-road, and according to an old legend, a man was murdered there in the eighteenth century, and his ghost haunts the place. Its proposed demolition has nothing to do with the ghost, however. The Ealing Medical Officer of Health has reported that it is unfit for human habitation. His opinion was reported to Ealing Town Council, and interested persons are being informed that the matter will be considered at the March meeting of the Council. The cottage is possibly as much as 200 years old. The village stocks used to stand opposite it, and they were there within living memory." — Middlesex County Times, 26 February 1937 Haunted House of Half-acre Road, Hanwell during its final days.
May 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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#SupernaturalStanmore. Marsh Lane entrance to the #HauntedSpinney alleged home to a #phantommonk. #TerrifyingworldofHauntedBenchProject #HauntedHarrowWeald
Haunted Spinney, Marsh Lane, Stanmore. Photo: Marion Bondage
October 18, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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Do SU do a Halloween special? If yes, where can I listen. If not, please set to work rectifying that for next Oct 31.

Happy Christmas

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December 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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... "wringing his bony white hands for all he was worth" before "fading to nothing." Same ghost has been sighted on Du Cros Drive, moaning sepulcherally as he passes the church. #HauntedHarrowWeald #TerrifyingWorldofHauntedBenchProject
November 19, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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More loveliness from Alan W. Ball's 'Paintings, Prints & Drawings of #Harrow_on_the_Hill: 1562-1899.' Percy Robertson illustration for the Art Journal of 1889. #StMarysChurchyard. #benchland #ghostnunwalk#terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
Percy Robertson illustration of Church Terrace. Two women admire the view across London. Another is sat on the bench (recently replaced with a metal atrocity) by the Peachey tree. A sentry approaches, carrying a rifle across his shoulder. Not sure what that's about.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Quote from Don Walter's typically excellent, if light on ghost content - there isn't any; not even the #springheeledjack attack(s) rate a mention - "Book of Harrow_on_the_Hill' (1988, 1996). #ghostnunwatch #terrifyingworldofHauntedBenchProject
October 11, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Fond memories of that ramshackle old ground. Had a decent social club, too. Got a programme or two somewhere. Spent a few months sleeping in their programme hut (the stand, if it was a warm night). #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
December 20, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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From today's 'Metro'; Sometimes they come back .... #benchwatch hall of heroes
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*pleased for the family — well done Ms O'Gorman!*
Metro, 24 Feb 2025. 'A FAMILY has been reunited with a tribute bench that was blown out to sea and floated 75 miles. The seat dedicated to Bill Batcock, who died in 2018, crashed into the Irish Sea in Anglesey as Storm Darragh battered the UK on December 5. The bench, which includes the inscription 'for me it has to be the sea', was retrieved by Megan O'Gorman, 37, in Drigg, Cumbria. William's daughter Helen said: 'We've said it's a sign.'
February 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Ghost on a Treadmill. While seeking out info concerning a #HarrowWealdHaunting, we chanced upon this pulse-freezing account of an early 19th Century #Boggart/#flasher/#PeepingTom loose in #Cheshire. Not to be taken at night!

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Tod Slaughter receives his comeuppance in 'It's Never Too Late To Mend,' though we suspect this is totally untrue in his case. Report on the capture and subsequent sentence to the treadmill of George Barlow, the Winford Ghost. Hampshire Advertiser, 25 Jan. 1934
August 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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This is terrific. 'Do Not Sit On This Haunted Ronald McDonald Bench' by Jessii Vee www.youtube.com/shorts/PPX9Y... #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
Did you know that there's actually a haunted Ronald McDonald bench in Mexico? This is actually one of the most bizarre stories that I've ever heard. The story goes that two young men had just left the nightclub and were very hungry, and went looking for a late night snack. They both settled on having McDonald's, and once they had gotten their food, they both took a seat on the Ronald McDonald bench outside of the restaurant. It was a strange bench because it had a statue of Ronald McDonald sitting in the middle with his arms spread out. His face almost had this crazed expression. And one of the men eventually laid down on Ronald's lap and said, I'm tired. Just then, Ronald McDonald's head turned and looked down at him and said, I'm tired too. The legend says they were so shocked by hearing this that one of them died instantly, and the other is still in a coma to this day. Apparently, the security cameras outside the restaurant recorded everything. So it is rumored that McDonald's paid a huge amount of money to cover it up. Because they didn't want the public to find out they had an actual, really dangerous, haunted McDonald statue.
August 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Pre-#Halloween visit to #St_Marys_Churchyard, #ByronHillRd., #WealdLane #GrimsDyke, #OldRedding, & other haunted cold spots, scheduled for Tuesday 22. #TerrifyingWorldofHauntedBenchProject
Postcard of Tyburn Lane, Harrow
October 13, 2024 at 12:24 PM