Did you know that a hoard of gold is probably buried somewhere under Bristol? Did you know that a statue in Bristol actually depicts the moment a king is about to die? Based on the popular Twitter feed from acclaimed author Charlie Revelle-Smith, Weird Bristol is an adventure through the dark, mysterious and secret history of an ancient city. From plagues, wars, ghosts and pirates to inventors, fraudsters, suffragettes and radicals. Only one thing is certain, you'll never look at Bristol in quite the same way again...

In this collection of true ghost stories taken from the files of Britain's renowned ghost-hunter, each case has been thoroughly verified with all available sources. Even the few striking legends which are included--each of them a meld of local tradition and hard fact--have been accorded the same painstaking personal research. O'Donnell tells of phantom buses and trains--and even a phantom plane; of the strangling oak of Nannau Woods, haunted churches, compacts with the dead; of banshees and fairies today and in old Brittany, Ireland and Wales. He also includes more of his own encounters with the supernatural: on a lonely road in Scotland, on beach and moor, and in a house filled with the hate of two dead women where, through the appearance of a ghost, O'Donnell uncovers a ghastly crime committed by mother and daughter 25 years before.--From dust jacket.

When journalist and ghost sceptic Will Storr heads to Philadelphia to meet Lou Gentile, a demonologist, he expects a little fun with an amusing eccentric. What he gets are terrifying experiences of spectral lights and horrific demonic growling - and all of his safe, adult preconceptions about ghosts instantly vanish. In the cold light of day, Will decides on a quest for the truth about ghosts. He meets professional paranormal investigators and takes part in séances and a vigil in the most haunted house in Britain, tries out divining rods and ouija boards, and goes on set with TV's Most Haunted. But Will also seeks out the sceptics in clinical psychology and philosophy who ask if spirits are really just in our heads. His journey is full of bizarre, terrifying and hilarious experiences, each one a new insight into life, death and what might come after.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, working with the charity Human Scale Education, has funded 39 secondary schools in England to develop along human scale lines. This book gives an account of the aspirations and process in some of those schools.