Stacia Briggs
"The shade of the great Robsarts still cherishes Raynsthorpe"
Born on June 7 1532, little is known about her early life but a great deal is known about her death at the tender age of 28
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Stacia Briggs
- Jun 26
Ghosts of the past: a Victorian horror that haunted a house of tragedy in Norwich
A Victorian horror that haunted a house of tragedy in Norwich
Stacia Briggs
- May 1
Norfolk prepares for Anne Boleyn’s visit
Born at Blickling,Anne Boleyn is said to return on the anniversary of her execution every year
Stacia Briggs
- Apr 17
The ghost of Catherine Gurney who haunts Earlham Hall
June marks the anniversary of Catherine Gurney’s – sister of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry – death and is said to be when her ghost appears
Stacia Briggs
- Mar 20
The shapeshifting horror of The Hateful Thing in Geldeston
The shapeshifting horror of The Hateful Thing in Geldeston
Stacia Briggs
- Mar 10
The Bacton Wood ghost
Tarred and jammed into a human-shaped cage hanging from a post in Norfolk woodland, William Suffolk's penance for a brutal murder.
Stacia Briggs
- Jan 17
The phantom food flinger of RAF Mildenhall
East Anglia’s airfields are legendary for their ghostly residents, but at RAF Mildenhall, one ghost made itself known by flinging food.
Stacia Briggs
- Dec 20, 2023
Sandringham House's Ghosts: the veiled lady in the mirror
In the early 1900s, a young prince went to visit his aunt at Sandringham – where he met a ghost pleading for mercy from beyond the grave.
Stacia Briggs
- Dec 13, 2023
Sandringham House’s ghost: “…a wheezing sound that resembles a grotesque lung breathing in and out…”
Sandringham House’s ghost: “…a wheezing sound that resembles a grotesque lung breathing in and out…”
Stacia Briggs
- Dec 6, 2023
The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
It’s probably the most famous ghost photograph in the world: The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, captured for Country Life in 1936.
Stacia Briggs
- Nov 22, 2023
RAF Feltwell: “I realised I was reaching out towards the black shape from my bed…”
The following story of a haunted room at RAF Feltwell was told in April 2023 on a website which has itself been a ghost since 2011.
Stacia Briggs
- Nov 8, 2023
The ghosts of RAF Feltwell
Most haunted airfields are derelict, overgrown and deserted – but the ghosts at RAF Feltwell do so on a very active site.
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 28, 2023
The Witch of East Somerton
Woodlands are places of folklore and fairytale, myth and magic, and nowhere is this more beautifully illustrated than at East Somerton.
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 26, 2023
The ghost of Gressenhall
Lights turning themselves off and on, objects being moved by unseen hands, a ‘cold’ presence – and a typed statement about the ghost of...
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 24, 2023
12 Oct: The white lady
Two churches stand side by side in the village of Kirby Bedon, one a ruin, the other standing, both said to be haunted by the same ghost.
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 24, 2023
15 Oct: The corpse-way
If you have reason to be across the border in Suffolk and on The Causeway in Needham Market, take a moment to consider that you are taking..
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 24, 2023
19 Oct: Phantom coaches at the Royal Arcade
Phantom coaches rumble through the cellars of the Royal Arcade.
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 24, 2023
20 Oct: The sneering man
The Sneering Man stalks the coastal road in front of terrified drivers, some of whom claim to have driven straight through him.
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 24, 2023
26 Oct: Mysterious entities at Fritton
In July 1997, two people were sitting in their car at the woods at Fritton when they saw something very strange.
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 24, 2023
27 Oct: Norwich's haunted church mystery
The book Norwich and Norfolk: Stone Age to the Great War, recounts relatively modern-day ghost sighting in a city centre church.
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 24, 2023
28 Oct: The King's Lynn haunted house
On their very first night in the house, three occupants were rudely awoken from their slumber by an invisible interloper.
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 24, 2023
29 Oct: A chilling tale from a Cromer church
A chilling tale told by Walter Rye in his book Cromer Past and Present, published in 1899, of a grisly ghost seen at the dead of night.
Stacia Briggs
- Sep 22, 2023
31 Oct 2023: Can you see the shadow figure amongst the graves…?
She stands almost at the shoulder of the man making a Christmas visit to his wife’s grave at St Faith's Crematorium.
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