The Skirrid Mountain Inn near Abergavenny has a pretty good claim. Not only is it the oldest pub in Wales but it is claimed that 182 people have been hanged on its staircase - although quite who did the counting is not made clear. Plas Teg near Mold though claims to be even spookier, with its owners running regular ghost tours. The 17th century manor house is said to have several different spirits haunting it - although why Plas Teg should be spook central is not clear. Some apparitions are more real than others, of course. The wild boars of Monmouth may sound like something from the Mabinogi but, in all likelihood probably owe more to careless husbandry than ancient Welsh legend. Meanwhile the hunt for the grave of Owain Glyndwr continued apace this year with various claimants putting forward theories - mostly involving two different villages called Monnington in western Herefordshire.

Some of the claims are more credible than others but the chance of any one of the being proved is about as likely as the trapping of the Beast of Brechfa or Tegi, the Llyn Tegid monster. All in all it has been a pretty good year for the weird in Wales, but nothing really to compare with my own personal "close encounter" a few years ago. So to end, here is a (totally true) Christmas ghost story - not something that happened to the "friend of a friend" but a first-hand experience.

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Now that story I like. Most of my weird happenings are things I have heard from others. Family, friends, a talk over a beer or two. I have seen some odd things but always figure that GOD dose this periodically to remind us we don't know everything.

I love hearing ghost and horror stories but they always freak me out

I love the storys with haunted houses. That ones creepey. Theres a pub in my town which claims to be haunted. I live in rural england and we have one pub; the railway tavern, because we have a rail station nearby. They say a woman fell down the stairs and died, and now haunts the stair case.

Here's one from New York. There's a place called Old Fort Niagara near the falls. Inside there's a castle(or something like that). In the castle there's a well. The story is, a long time ago there was a couple dancing. Now another man was there and thought the girl was incredibly beautiful, so he tried to cut in. The other man, wanting to stay with his sweetheart, pushes him back. They both drew there swords to fight for her. After a few bangs, the man who was first dancing with the lady, took a step backwards and fell down the stairs. He was knocked unconscious, but since he was completley still the other man took him for dead and sliced off his head. To show his triumph, he threw the head in to the well, and the still bloody corpse into Lake Ontario. Now they say, if you're there when it's getting dark, you can see a headless body staggering around and hear a ghostly voice saying "where's my head, where's my head?"

That's the legend can't say if it's true or not.

I live in the southern part of Wisconsin and the are a number of small communitys with populations only in the hundreds. One not far from here has a beautiful country home that is vacant because of the violence of it owners a few years. Neighbors next to the property say they hear screams in the night , but found no one there when looked into.
My daughter in law sell homes for a living, tells me that by law it has to be recorded as haunted. Two years ago it was sold to a couple from Chicago Ill. They started fixing it up nice but within a couple of months moved out. Chased out was the story. Local kids have tryed to spend the night there , but usually chicken out before the nights over.
I've gone by this house many times but my wife, who's more sensitive to these things, wont go near it. I am trying to get some investigator to look into it but no bites yet.

Ahhhh.........the fascination of the spooky and unknown that all humans have, it will never die!