30 Real Christmas Ghost Stories

by M.J. Wayland, L. Jeffrey (Illustrator)

Christmas is such a paradoxical season, on one hand, it’s a time of family gatherings and the giving of presents. Yet it is a time of increased curiosity into the strange and weird stories that literally haunt us. In writing this book, I decided to explore and evaluate some of the incredible ghost stories that litter the archives of libraries of Britain and the United States. Out of the hundreds of anecdotes and references that I uncovered I have brought to you a collection of Christmas ghost stories from as close as the original sources as possible. Many of the stories have never seen print since the original experiences.

Many of the stories have never seen print since the original experiences. I am pleased to share with you the ‘lost ghosts’ of the Missouri Wild Man, where the ghost of an eight-foot man terrorises a small township for several years, the Clanking Ghost that appeared to dozens of ghost hunters in a park outside of London and twenty-eight more scary and unusual ghost stories that happened at Christmas.

Stories
The Misty Figure
The Flying Hearse
He Looked Right Through Me
The Lone Mountain Musician
The Ghost of Constable Tower
The Clanking Tower
The Squire's Ghost
A Boy and his Horse
Colonel Sidley's Christmas Ride
Christmas Tricks
The Tragedy of Calverley Hall
Taddington's Christmas Ghosts
The Monks of Long Drax
The Mysterious Hole in the Cellar
She Waits By The Bridge
The Ghost Hunter in Dublin
Found Lying by the Supper Table
A Sermon For The Spirits
The Phantom Lorry
The Ghost Hunting Miners
The Missouri Wild Man
Murder in Stoke Poges
The Ghostly Dr Astley
The Riderless Horses of Copyhold Lane
Ghost of The Warrior
The Green Lady
Death By Fright
Terror In Carondelet
The Haunting Returned
The White Lady of Worsted

MJ Wayland once again delves into the past uncovering lost ghost stories from the terrifying to the downright weird, this Christmas book will be one to remember and the perfect Christmas gift for those who love ghosts and the paranormal.

123 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2021

About the author

MJ Wayland is a writer, researcher and historian specialising in ghosts, supernatural belief and fringe history. His research has appeared in dozens of publications and he has consulted and appeared in over one hundred television programmes and documentaries. During the last ten years he has lectured internationally as well as appearing at The Sunday Times Literature Festival (alongside Professor Bruce Hood) and various festivals and universities across the UK.

MJ Wayland’s interest in the paranormal, especially ghosts, began at an early age after experiencing a number of unusual incidents that his peers could not explain. In his early teens he joined various research societies and began to study the multiple facets to the paranormal with a scientific and historical viewpoint. His research has taken him from dark haunted castles of Britain to the haunted graveyards of New Orleans, investigating his primary love of ghosts to sightings of black panthers.

Since the mid-1990s, MJ Wayland has provided consultancy for TV, film and theatre as well as appearing in local, national, international newspapers, radio and TV. He is the author of eight best-selling books, “50 Real Ghost Stories” holding the Amazon top 10 bestselling Paranormal book for the second consecutive Halloween in 2013.

Since the mid-1990s MJ Wayland has curated, consulted and organised paranormal events for locations and companies including Warwick Castle, Harewood House, Nokia and many more. He was responsible founding of the internationally renowned Mary King’s Ghost Fest, as well as programming the fourteen day Oxford Castle Ghost Fest in 2009 and 2010.

More recently he provided consultancy for the forthcoming Hammer film “The Quiet Ones” due April 2014.

Reviews

[Phillip D Curwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Silent Night. Spooky Night.

This incredible array of Christmas ghost stories is just the thing to read during the festive period. Some tales make you wonder about the reality of ghosts and the very notion of taking that shortcut through a graveyard is now out of the question for me. As a huge fan of Wayland's work, this book didn't fail in it's desire to frighten me.

Highly recommended!

[Chiara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Awful editing! I found most of the stories interesting, however the writing was in some cases incomprehensible. Some of the stories it felt like paragraphs were missing as it didn’t make sense!
The ghost hunter in Dublin for example two parts of the story don’t link at all.
Could have been really interesting but very poor sorry!

[Sara Evraets · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are a few good stories that peaked my interest causing me to further research. Its a good cute little short story read during the holidays.