The Peter Underwood Project

Celebrating the life & times of the renowned psychical researcher. (Posthumous account managed by grandson Adam Underwood, alongside an experimental chronological website repository.)

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Ghost-hunter, by Peter Underwood: https://peterunderwood.org

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Remembering Peter | The life and legacy of Peter Underwood

This week, we'll be paying tribute to the life and works of one of the UK's most famous ghost hunters, Peter Underwood. We'll be joined by P

I put a lot of energy into being ready to talk about Peter in a knowledgeable way, and if I did not always achieve this aim, at least I tried. But if at least one person found it mildly interesting, my attempt will not have been in vain..!

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Loremen Podcast | https://loremenpodcast.com/episode-5-s2 | https://ghostlygazetteer.wordpress.com

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"It is an indisputable fact that anyone who tries to conduct and carry out research into ghosts and haunted houses faces at least two great problems. Ghost hunting is immensely time-consuming and for the most part intensely boring."

- Foreword, Supernatural North: True Ghost Stories (2009) by Darren W Ritson

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UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peter-Underwood/e/B00IVD11HE 

US: https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Underwood/e/B00IVD11HE

Ghost-Hunter: https://www.peterunderwood.org

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Dozens of spooky Kindle titles FREE NOW until HALLOWEEN! UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peter-Underwood/e/B00IVD11HE US: https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Underwood/e/B00IVD11HE FREE ONLINE: Ghost-Hunter, by Peter Underwood: https://www.peterunderwood.org

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"Tradition has overlaid legend that replaced the true story of The Written Stone, as it has been called for centuries, but it seems that the area hereabouts was haunted by a nefarious and spiteful ghost, a ‘boggart’ that molested lonely travellers, scratching, pinching and punching any solitary wayfarer. It was also said to be responsible for frightful noises, horrible bumping sounds and terrifying screeches; it was even reputed to have caused the death of at least one local inhabitant..."

Longridge, near Preston, Lancashire

Ghosts of North-West England | Google Map | Kindle Unlimited US/UK | Audible [Trailer] | peterunderwood.org

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ILLUSTRATIONS to WHERE THE GHOSTS WALK - FREE on KINDLE NOW: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B2258Y4H - until 6.59am Monday the 13th (Sat 12AM-Sun 11:59 PDT)

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FREE NOW - WHERE THE GHOSTS WALK on KINDLE (until 6.59am Monday the 13th (Sat 12AM-Sun 11:59 PDT)

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WHERE THE GHOSTS WALK - FREE from 7am tomorrow (Saturday 11th, GMT) until 6.59am Monday the 13th (Sat 12AM-Sun 11:59 PDT).

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As Hayley Stevens wrote in her 2013 review, WHERE THE GHOSTS WALK is a 'testament to the amount of work carried out by Peter Underwood, one of the worlds longest serving paranormal researchers'.

To celebrate its republication for Kindle and paperback, it will be available FREE from this weekend, from 7am on Saturday (GMT) the 11th until 6.59am on Monday the 13th (Sat 12AM-Sun 11:59 PDT).

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The Ghost Hunters (1975)

Hugh Burnett talks to some of the people who have tried to track them down - or who have heard and seen things they cannot explain.

The documentary ranges from a haunted house, a haunted inn - even a theatre haunted by a butterfly, to Borley Church with Peter Underwood, where many strange occurrences have been recorded.

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Augustus Montague Summers: author, clergyman, teacher - vampire-hunter..?

‘In 1947 I talked with him about his personal encounter with a vampire in northern Italy…’

‘The Italian Count’ (1987): https://www.peterunderwood.org/the-italian-count.html

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Jockey Fred Archer, who was once reported to have made a ghostly appearance atop his favourite horse at Hamilton Stud Lane in Newmarket, Suffolk, in 1927; Gazetteer of British Ghosts Google Map | 'The Ghost Rider', by Adam Underwood

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"The tragedy that struck the otherwise highly successful Victorian era ‘Champion Jockey’ Fred Archer (who chalked up 2,748 race wins during his racing career, who was an inveterate gambler who was nicknamed The Tin Man on account of his love of money (and his reluctance to part with it), who lost his wife Rose Nellie Dawson in 1884 during childbirth only a year after they were married, and who proceeded to take his own life two years after that, in 1886, at his home in Newmarket), serves as a melancholy backdrop to the sighting of him, atop his favourite horse (Scotch Pearl), at Hamilton Stud Lane in Newmarket, forty years after his death, in 1927."

- 'The Ghost Rider' by Adam Underwood, a short illustrated reflection on entry 165 of the Ghostly Gazetteer ('...the ghost of the great jockey Fred Archer...')