Ghost Hunter Walks in Dorset

Ghost Hunter Walks in Dorset gathers reported hauntings from across the county, linking ghost stories with towns, castles, fields, harbours and historic buildings. The accounts include two phantom men seen with a ghostly packhorse at Shaftesbury, the spectre of Squire Plumber running across fields near Sturminster Newton with a pack of hounds, and stories associated with Sherborne Castle, Bettiscombe and Lyme Regis.

Rupert Matthews presents these episodes as local traditions and reported sightings, showing how tales of the dead become attached to particular Dorset landscapes. The book ranges from the screaming skull of Bettiscombe to the handsome Duke of Monmouth, said to ride inland from Lyme Regis on a white horse, creating a county-wide record of remembered apparitions and haunted places.