Haunted Birmingham

Haunted Birmingham gathers reported encounters with ghosts, spirits and apparitions associated with England’s second city. Arthur Smith and Rachel Bannister present these accounts as true-life stories, bringing together different kinds of alleged supernatural experience within a specifically Birmingham setting.

The book belongs to the tradition of local ghost-lore, where stories connected with a city’s places and history are recorded alongside wider traditions of haunting. Its focus remains firmly on Birmingham, offering a collection of reports rather than a general study of paranormal belief. The result is a concise account of the city’s ghost stories, told through claims of apparitions, spiritual presences and other unsettling experiences.