A Ghost in Every Grid Square: Building a Haunted Map of Milton Keynes Milton Keynes might be the last place anyone would expect to find a rich haunted history. Built […]

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Tonight’s story reached me through a particularly delightful connection – last year, I was honoured to be a guest on Rob Kirkup’s wonderful How Haunted? podcast, talking about this project an…

Voices of Milton Keynes – Arts Central Studios, 20 Burners Lanes, Kiln Farm, Sun 26 Apr 2026 - The Raising Voices Project is curating writing inspired by places in Milton Keynes to present in our onli...

When you say “haunted pub”, most people think of a spooky old half-timbered building dating back centuries, and stories of dark misdeeds whispered long after closing time. There’s something about t…

We’re getting very close to the end of the year, and it always feels like the right time for stories like these. The days shorten, familiar paths grow quieter, and places we think we know wel…

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Some of the stories I’ve shared recently have been detailed, complex hauntings: years of encounters, multiple witnesses, escalating activity. But there are also those smaller haunting moments…

Figure caught on camera at Chester Castle among accounts of eerie goings on at historic properties

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what it means to live with ghosts. As the nights draw in, I notice the shadows deepening in my own rooms, folding in a little earlier each evening. I read so many s…

Some stories arrive as fragments – fleeting memories, half-remembered encounters that still manage to unsettle. Others arrive whole, rich with detail, stretching across years and leaving no d…

Even the most unremarkable places can harbour the uncanny, as ghost stories from Milton Keynes begin to emerge from the shadows, writes guest writer DR STEPH LAY

Around this time last year, long before this project even existed, I decided I wanted to start writing more non-fiction pieces as well as stories. I sat down and made a list of topics I could cover…

It sometimes seems amazing to me that I only started this project in April – it’s hard to believe that it’s only been five months, so much has happened in that short time. I&#8217…