Hauntings

For longer than recorded history there have been stories of spirits and of places where our hackles rise and our skin turns cold.Neil Oliver travels the British Isles to unpick these stories, exploring thirty or more places that are haunted or haunting. At each place he visits, he uncovers its history, giving context to the event for which each is famous or infamous. Then there will be the haunting...In Hauntings, Oliver considers our sense of place, how our emotions and senses are affected by locations and sometimes by the stories that go with them. Our landscape is sprinkled and riven with all manner of places that make a person think and also feel. From Inverness to Devon, Co Dublin to Norfolk, Hauntings highlights stories told generation after generation - and considers why they matter.