Haunted Gloucestershire

Haunted Gloucestershire gathers reported apparitions and traditional haunting accounts from across the county, arranging them by recurring themes rather than by a single location. Rupert Matthews includes ghosts said to carry messages, phantom monks and other clergy, friendly phantoms, and white ladies.

The later chapters turn to spectral transport, wartime echoes, animal hauntings and apparitions associated with roadsides and other public places. The book also considers nameless, purposeless phantoms and stories linked to untimely deaths, giving Gloucestershire’s ghost lore a broad range of forms and settings. An introduction and index frame the collection as a county-based reference work built from local reports and traditions.