Haunted Trees of Bath   The Haunting of Trees   On our Bath Ghost Tour, we visit three very special trees. The first of these is haunted in its own right, with visitors describing chilling experiences beneath its branches. One marks the spot of long-forgotten atrocities, the tree acting as a marker for these dark deeds. The final tree was used to stage unofficial executions; miscreants being strung up from its branches.   But why should trees be associated with hauntings? Why might a tree...

The sight of a ghostly nurse, gliding through darkened corridors has long been a trope of horror movies and literature. But where does this come from? Are hospitals more haunted than other buildings? And if so, why? In Bath we have our own haunted hospital, the Mineral Waters Hospital on Upper Borough Walls. It is an imposing Georgian building that opened for business in 1739 and is currently awaiting redevelopment. Across the road is the old leper hospital and between them is an underground...

Why Do We See Ghosts at Night? It is an interesting quirk of ghost hunting that it is largely carried out at night. Why is this? Are the spirits more active during the nocturnal hours or does the daylight itself banish them, in the same way that vampire lore would have us believe? Some estimates have it that 70% of ghost sightings happen during daylight hours, yet we very much associate them with the quiet atmosphere of darkness and dwell on ghost sightings at night. It is a perception I...