![An old map showing Black Jack's Spring, at Sparsholt](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Screenshot_2024-02-05_at_16.24.10.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.png)
Black Jack's Well: Sparsholt's healing spring
5 February 2024
Sparsholt Park, Sparsholt
Black Jack's Well in Sparsholt is a natural spring said to have miraculous healing properties.
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The Ghostly Monks of Charney Manor
13 December 2023
Charney Manor, Charney Bassett
The picturesque 13th-century manor house at Charney Bassett was once a grange for Abingdon Abbey, and it seems that some of its former monastic residents still haunt the corridors.
![The Devil's Punchbowl, map circa 1913](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Screenshot_2023-10-25_at_16.23.17.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.png)
The Devil's Punchbowl, Childrey
25 October 2023
Childrey Parish, Vale of the White Horse
How this smooth-sided Oxfordshire valley close to the Ridgeway got its devilish name is somewhat mysterious.
![Flying saucer image from Sunday Mirror article](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/alien-spaceshop-newspaper-image-ed.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.jpg)
UFO encounter near Stanford in the Vale
29 September 2023
A417 near Stanford in the Vale
In June 1978, the Mann family from Gloucestershire claimed to have encountered a UFO while driving late one night near the Oxfordshire village of Stanford in the Vale.
![Memento Mori tomb at Fyfield](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/3244374960_c2a31ab27e_o.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.jpg)
The Cadaver Monument of John Golafre at Fyfield
21 September 2023
St. Nicholas's church, Fyfield
Visitors to the tomb of John Golafre at Fyfield will be confronted by a gruesome statue of his hollow-eyed corpse.
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Ghost of a suicide at Mill Bridge, East Hanney
3 September 2023
Mill Orchard, East Hanney, Wantage
This spot near Dandridge's Mill has been the site of tragedies, hauntings and more.
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Ghosts of The Manor, Long Wittenham
23 May 2023
The Manor, High Street, Long Wittenham
This Manor house boasts tales of nocturnal visitations, haunted coaches and ghosts laid in ponds!
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Ghosts of the Bell Hotel, Faringdon
30 December 2022
The Bell Hotel, 13 Market Place, Faringdon
This hotel is said to be haunted by the ghosts of either Cistercian monks, or mutinying soldiers from the English Civil War.
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Ghosts and Murders at the Old Blueberry Inn, Blewbury
14 December 2022
The Old Blueberry Inn, London Road, Blewbury
The ghost of an ex-landlord is said to haunt the former Blueberry Inn, but there are also rumours of disappearing guests and bodies buried in the garden!