Kent Urban Legends

About this book

Neil Arnold examines Kent’s modern folklore through stories of phantom hitch-hikers, sinister apparitions, mysterious creatures and tales repeated as fact. Among the accounts are motorists’ reports of a hitch-hiker on Blue Bell Hill, the claim that Satan appears when people dance around the Devil’s Bush at Pluckley, and sightings of big cats in local woods.

The book also considers the Countless Stones near Aylesford, ghost stories associated with Pluckley and the way rumours travel through school playgrounds, campfires, websites and word of mouth. These reports are set against Kent’s local communities and landscapes, showing how familiar places acquire stories that endure, change and gather authority with each retelling.