Whitsun Ale at Woodstock
19 August 2021
Woodstock
Chaotic scenes and drunken revelry were par for the course on this particularly boozy religious holiday.
The Ghost of Jane Scalpepper at Church Handborough
18 August 2021
The Old Rectory, Church Handborough
The Old Rectory at Church Handborough is haunted by the ghost of Jane Scalpepper, who met a bad end there in the mid 17th century.
A Monkey at St. Mary's Church
6 August 2021
St. Mary's Church, The Green, Witney
An escaped monkey during a fair inspired this unusual addition to the spire at St. Mary's Church, Witney.
A Ghostly Highwayman on the B4047
5 August 2021
B4047, between Witney and Burford.
The old Witney-Burford road is haunted by a black-clad highwayman in the garb of the 18th century.
The Ghost of Swinbrook Bridge
4 August 2021
The Bridge, Swinbrook
Could the bridge at Swinbrook be haunted by the ghost of a young woman searching for her baby?
A Haunted Wardrobe at Carterton Manor
4 July 2021
Priory Manor Farm, Manor Road, Brize Norton
An advert in the London Morning Post on 19 August 1937, offered for sale a large Victorian wardrobe, complete with ghost!
The Story of Moonraker Lane, Bampton
1 July 2021
Moonraker Lane, Bampton
The curiously named Moonraker Lane harks back to a running joke from the past about mistaking the moon's reflection for a cheese!
A Suicide Buried at the Crossroads
16 June 2021
B4022, Charlbury
The crossroads known as 'Condive's Corner' is believed to be haunted by a suicide. Or was it a murder?