Let me know what you think!

Very nice, great story telling sir'

Another good story well told. Really enjoying these tales, Richard.

Hello Richard, just watched the Thakeham Ghost story very well narrated felt like l was there. Could see the snow on the hills. From Robert New Zealand. 29c here.

It's surprising, how many times a skeleton is found at crossroads on road widening..They are not often reported in the press but I have read reports of this in some of the books in my collection.

Excellent loved the narration.

I live just round the corner from that cross roads. I will be taking a walk that way soon. Thank you for your great tail

Hello Richard! Tammie here. I too have seen a ghost. Here in the US, in the midwest, as it's called, we used to have what they called 6-mile houses where you could rest yourself and your horses after travel. My mother's home is not even a mile from that old house which is now a museum. One night I woke to a man standing in the doorway of my bedroom. He was standing there facing down the hallway and turned his head to look at me. I closed my eyes and opened them again, he was still there! Standing in red long underwear with a pole over his shoulder and a bandana tied to the end of it which was holding something, sort of like the hobo's did. He looked at me and grinned and then faded away. Many years later, we found out that there were 3 graves in my mother's yard along with a horse. Believe it or not. True story.

An old story with a happy ending! Great story! Must have taken a while to warm up after filming!

well played Sir Larry

What light through yonder window breaks? Tis the bald bard with another tale! Nice one Richard :-)

Wow. It is Halloween already? Love a good ghost story and that was a good story, well told!

Awesome

Really well done.

Spot on Richard I really enjoyed that.🇬🇧

Oh tragic but goodly spirit,I really must thank you! You saved my family,that much is true! Even if you frightened me half out of my wits. In the end I was thrilled to bits!! You surpassed yourself there Richard!!

We are loving the stories, well done

Great story Richard. The woman with the lamp at the crossroads was trying to warn him about the fire but as he was afraid of her he went around her. Seeing this, the woman with the lamp went to the house to save the child herself. That’s my interpretation if it’s worth anything. Love your stories Richard 😊😊

Well I enjoyed that, very Fascinating well done

What a spooky - but lovely - story. Very well told, Richard.

Your a great storyteller Richard.

One word “spooky” is all that’s needed for that interesting tale

Excellent story Richard especially at minus six degrees gave the story an extra chill

A very mooving story😬

Fabulous story Richard.. 😊

What a fascinating story and so well delivered, very dramatic you old thesp!

Wonderful tale, Only just found it ! I was hoping he was going to go back to the Crossroads and thank the Ghost ................ Stay safe, and well ! Stu

Loved this, well done Richard.

Loving these little historical stories 👌

You are a very good storyteller! Well done👍

A chilling story on a chilly day 🥶 great stuff!

Great story well presented, you would be welcome here on Ireland's west coast as a modern day Seanachai

Great Video!

The lovely lady spirit couldn't let another child die, I hope it's true.

Absolutely loved this. Really well told x

What a great tale. Had me hooked listening. Thank you

Thoroughly enjoyed the story telling.

A great tale. You told it so well. I was so engrossed in it, i could have listened for hours 😀

Great story Mr. Vobes

This is the second time around for me on this one Richard and it is as still as good, you tell a great ghost story so can you record some more please whenever you have time.

Great story

love how you tell the ghost story very interesting ! Thank you ! PS I love your accent. too ! 😁👍

Fabulously told in atmospheric surroundings.... so pleased I’ve discovered The Bald Explorer 😊👻

Brilliant,loved this video.

Nice storytelling Richard, more Sussex ghost or paranormal stories please, sending some wonga soon.

I love these tales if old Sussex, you did a brilliant job,telling thus tale ! I have read all of M R James ghost stories ,a very English tradition listening to tales in front of a roaring fire.Great video xxxShaz

Great talk video

Nowt like a jaw swinger story aye Richard. Love it.

Its one thing to hear a great ghost story but your leading us to the place from where the story originates really brings the story to life, and besides you are a wonderful story teller!

More ghost storys bro, you tell them so well, subbed

Really enjoyed your tale. Just come across it in lockdown, April 2021. Am going to look for more...

Watching this today wishing it was a crisp cold winter day!! I'm not one for this heat !! Good Video Vobes

What happened to poor old lost Daisy though?! Great story.... although maybe you should have filmed it by moonlight ;)

That is a brilliant story

Fantastic tale!

Having lived in several haunted houses I can tell you that it is quite possible this tale is quite likely to be true. In one house I lived in, I was woken by a presence who spoke to me very calmly in what felt like an extremely trustworthy voice, telling me a friend, who had a room in the roof above me, had fallen asleep leaving a candle burning in an unsafe place. I immediately went up the stairs & found that the candle was burning in a flat wooden holder, on a rush mat, under a wooden beam, only inches from my friends bedcovers.

What a nice tale and very well delivered. Your a story teller thats what you are:)

Another good story. Had a nice ending.

I resonate with this. Myself and my family were saved from a house fire by a cat. A cat who had been put out for the night. I was aged 8.

Very interesting

That was very good indeed - thank you. You seem to operate better in these lower temperatures! atb snack

'The Lady with the lamp' did her good deed: she had lost her own baby, but saved another, if all to be believed. Well told, and a happy ending. It would have been even more atmospheric if filmed after dark, with perhaps a wind stirring the trees and hedges, and especially at the crossroads!

Very enjoyable....

An enjoyable tale; well told; provided me with a good few minutes of 'escape'. Thank you Richard; and thank you for showing me what wonderful scenery there be down that way. I must bring my easel and paints down Sussex way! A like and a subscribe from me. Thanks again. John in Brum

Great story Richard, has any one seen the lady of the lamp since?

great story..Richard...I was wondering who published the book....as I found nothing in relation to author and title

What a lucky escape!

Nice ghost

Great story! You mention 'religious people', Richard. But everyone was religious back then. It was just the way things were.

A simular grave lies between the A14 and Newmarket where the Gypsy Boy is buried. It's believed that they took their life after they thought they had lost a farmers sheep he was looking after and in those days sheep theft was punished with death so they took their own life instead and so they were buried at a cross roads. The grave is still there today and people still tend the grave. It's said that the colours of the ribbons on the grave are also the colours of the winning horse at that year's Derby.

Life is sacred

I'd like to think that later he went to the crossroads to thank her, but she wasn't there any more. Maybe her good deed got her into heaven 🙂

Ghosts are a strange phenomenone , there are 2 kinds No 1, where the the apparition / event is memorised by the surroundings . it,s a like Video recording that repeats and repeats . the Ghost is long dead , In the late 80s there was a programme called Ghost Hunters Willam Wollard narrated it , in one programe was a plumber working in a cellar below nearby York Minster. , he heard music in the background thinking it was someone upstairs , suddenly a horse appeared through a wall with a Centurian mounted, he could not see the the bottom of the horses legs as they were obscured by the platform attached to the wall, as the horse cleared the short platform the legs appeared walking on the original Roman Road , they were followed by Legionaires marching behind . he could hear the noise of the horse and men on the cobbled road and could smell the horse and men as well . They then disappeard through another wall , The guy went upstairs to report his job had finished, looking quite shocked, the office guy said whats up with you? have you seen the Romans then ? how did you know asked the Plumber , people see then all the time here,!!! it,s thought that for some unknown reason that the event is recorded by the surroundings , this applies to ghosts seen in haunted houses etc they are just recordings No 2 deals with Ghosts that are real . they have conciousness and awareness that they had when alive , now they are in Limbo stuck between the 3rd and 4th Dimension , some chose this for their own reasons , others ar lost souls, Sorry it was a bit long

poor cow.

You're doing it in the light cos you're really scared

I smell smugglers!