Britain has a long tradition of Christmas ghost stories. This book collects the real ones. Over 100 Christmas hauntings from 40+ counties across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Christmas Ghosts Hauntings that occur on Christmas Day. Apparitions that appear only at midnight on Christmas Eve. Phantom coaches, spectral monks, poltergeist activity and unexplained phenomena tied to the darkest nights of the year.

Britain has a long tradition of Christmas ghost stories. This book collects the real ones. Ghosts of Christmas documents festive hauntings across the UK, organised county by county. From Cornwall to the Highlands, from Lancashire to Kent. Real witness accounts. Local legends. Historical records of the strange and unexplained.

Inside you’ll find:

• Over 100 Christmas hauntings from 40+ counties across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
• Apparitions that manifest only around Christmastime
• Phantom coaches, headless horsemen, spectral monks and yuletide poltergeists
• Witness accounts spanning Victorian times to the present day
• Historical context for each location and haunting

A Christmas Eve coach in Penryn pulled by headless horses. The Devil crossing a Lancashire bridge on Christmas Day. Church bells ringing from beneath frozen rivers. A lamplighter with hollow eye sockets who appears when Sandringham is decorated for the holidays.

Why Christmas?

Christmas is when people gathered. When tragedies happened. When memories became raw. The Victorians printed every ghost story that came in during the festive season and some of those accounts have never been collected until now.

These aren’t the famous hauntings. These are the local ones. The things seen on cold December nights by ordinary people walking home from church or driving back from Christmas parties.

County by county, we’ve gathered what we could find. The stories range from tragic to bizarre to genuinely unsettling.

We haven’t tried to prove anything. The stories exist whether or not the ghosts do. They’ve been here for a long time.

And they’re not going anywhere.