Haunted Carlisle

Haunted Carlisle gathers reported apparitions, eyewitness testimony and local ghost lore from the city and its surrounding countryside. Darren W. Ritson includes the headless spectre associated with Carlisle railway station, the ‘Radiant Boy’ or phantom boy of Corby Castle, and the alleged ghostly highwayman of Barrock Park.

The collection places these accounts within Carlisle’s historic landscape, where railway buildings, country estates and border-country traditions provide the settings for stories passed down or recorded by witnesses. Other reports include haunting claims connected with Talkin Tarn and the tragic figure of Jessie, said to have been drowned there in 1850. More than 60 illustrations accompany the stories, giving the book a visual record of the places and legends it describes.