Weird News: UK's Haunted Hampshire County
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Weird fiction aficionados pondering over why so many great ghost stories and the writers behind them emerge in Britain may have one more point to mull over: the presence of places where obscene numbers of spectral incidents have been recorded. The County of Hampshire is one of these regions. So seemingly haunted, in fact, that it can now claim a specialized ghost hunting society and a book specifically about Hampshire's troubles to its name. Whether or not there are strange places in this world attracting ghosts like a magnet--or at least reports of them--is a nearly unanswerable question. Judging how weird fiction might draw on inspiration from particularly possessed locales, however, is another matter.
