Ghosts and Witches of Olde England

Come on a spooky journey with us around the country to explore the ghostly tails of Charles Dickens, Theatre Royal Bath, Harvington Hall, Long Compton Witches, and more in this 60 minute Liam Dale special.
Despite being produced around 20 years ago, the ghost stories, hauntings, and witch folklore featured in this documentary are still just as fascinating today.
#ghoststories #Britishghosts #ghoststories

[@TheGreatest1974]

Very old cemeteries at night in the quiet moonlight of a summer night, are so very eerie. The lives of those who now lie there long gone, the events they witnessed long forgotten, conversations and laughter long past, and what is there now? In the present? WE are in the ‘present’. It’s all the same. Nothing ever really changes. Our laughter and conversations will die with us. We will all one day be one of those forgotten souls laid to rest alongside those we knew in life. Those we spoke to. They are us. We are them. The only thing that differs between us and them is time. So when we gaze upon the gravestones of a spooky churchyard, in the moonlight, we see ourselves lying there forever. And we don’t like it at all. For we all know instinctively what awaits us. The long sleep. Live your life and be as happy as you can be! Time is short and passes faster and faster the older you get.

[@javierrogriguez8142]

Leave your life happy everyday ,cause life is short ,damn that hit me ,hear i am kind of lost mad 46 years old thinking if i could go back in time not made those bad decisions

[@TheGreatest1974]

@@javierrogriguez8142 thanks for your reply. We must simply accept our bad decisions of the past and learn from them. Don’t carry them around with you. The burden of life is heavy enough. 👍

[@javierrogriguez8142]

@@TheGreatest1974 damn your right,preach brother,i needed that ,opened my eyes ,46 years old theres more to life

[@TheGreatest1974]

@@javierrogriguez8142 god bless you mate. 👍

[@javierrogriguez8142]

@@TheGreatest1974 pray for me idont got cancer,i dont know if i have it ,scared to go to doctor ,dont know when ,i got a 5 year old daughter no family ex felon ,always thinking if i have it where will she end up???i got $60,000 saved up for her wish i had more so if i got it she be set ,been thinking of looking at a orphanage

[@carladavis4639]

3 am is the the Devil's hour in fact. Midnight is the witching hour.

[@riverrain4031]

And four twenty pm is the relaxation hour

[@8OutOf10Crafts]

Its crazy that even ghosts have adopted daylight savings

[@gabrielleangelica1977]

Exactly!

[@jokesonyou1373]

You would know 👻

[@Khalid382]

Midnight is sleeping hour but in most cases 3am is when I get up to pee.

[@AlexAlexon3897]

One story from The Garrick's Head is pretty modern. A middle-aged man came to the bar and ordered a half. He drank it quickly - then disappeared in front of the barman/woman. Whatever happened to the drink, it was not found on the floor. And a lady in 1960s clothes haunts Popjoy's Restaurant next door (17:43), as well as the more historical figure of Julianna Popjoy. (The restaurant may have changed its name in recent years.) I'm pretty sure I "smelled" the Grey Lady's ghost around 1993. I was alone on the very top floor of the theatre, and suddenly caught a strong aroma of perfume, said to accompany her appearances.

[@ForwardEarth]

Ghosts aren't real.

[@jordangriffith9102]

@@ForwardEarthyou’re so sure, aren’t you?

[@ForwardEarth]

@@jordangriffith9102 Entirely.

[@elizabethlyons1066]

Wonderfully done! To the narrator, has anyone ever told you that you and the actor Nicol Williamson sound similar? 🖖🏼🇺🇸🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

[@TheGreatest1974]

We NEED videos like this! Subscribed for every upload! 👍🇬🇧

[@6Haunted-Days]

Liam Dale has his own channel with ALL the stuff he’s done for TV on it…..it’s very good!

[@herby4215]

British dark history is haunting

[@hawkeyepierce67]

Entertaining and nicely put together. Good job, ty.

[@eliasdeleone7059]

I love this type of stuff! I found myself watching a ton of this channel's stuff over the weekend. Thanks for the uploads!

[@Bambisgf77]

I have watched many of your posts but perhaps never commented. Thank you, I really enjoy your channel, camera work, script & delivery all excellent! 🎉 Much appreciation from SW Missouri 🇺🇸

[@GreatBritishChannel]

Hello from the UK. We're so pleased to hear that you enjoy our channel. There's still lots more to come. What's your favourite program so far?

[@6Haunted-Days]

They didn’t make this video or any of them I hope you know….I assumed most knew this other than 5yr olds maybe but I’ve since been shocked to learn ADULTS that…..I guess think sometimes…..sometimes thought this….insanely silly thought….so 😂🙄🤷🏼‍♀️🚌

[@6Haunted-Days]

But seriously you don’t think THIS CHANNEL did THIS VIDEO?! It’s like ummmm 25 or more YEARS OLD!! Christ….I sure hope you didn’t think, the actual host LIAM DALE? He has a KZbin channel and has all the stuff he’s done INCLUDING THIS….on there. But yea…they don’t make videos….they just take videos and post them. Unbelievable ignorance to not even see this.

[@jesusknight1]

@@6Haunted-Days So what? Lots of channels on yt do that.. The video is good, and people appreciate the upload, the narrator, AND the uploader.

[@clivemitchell4316]

​@@6Haunted-Daysyou need to chill out, making drama out of nothing.

[@jendamum]

Found your channel and had to subscribe. Such marvelous posts and I look forward to seeing more! 🇺🇸❤️

[@lynneh9744]

The best detail of the hides at Harvington Hall! I also enjoyed the segment on Long Compton, just down the road from me. I think these old villages have not changed so much from thier gossiping superstitious past. I used to live in Salford Village, just over the fields from Long Compton and also Rollright Stones, and very recently found out that they burned 2 poor ladies as witches there, in times past. As I was driving home one night about ten years ago, past the Rollright Stones, 'something' got into my car with me, and stayed while I went past the Kings Stone, and then the circle. I was terrified. It left my car just past the Stones, as quickly as it got into my car on near the Kings Stone. Another interesting thing is that about 15 years ago, the skeleton of a high status wise woman, from centuries past, was found just below the surface of ground by someone with a metal detector. Just google 'Rollright Stones woman's skeleton found' and you can read the details. She had items buried with her that signified her status.

[@user-oi8mt7ts3d]

Witching hour can start anytime darkness strikes every lost soul has a different time. I get awoken 3 am or 4 am every night since I've been in my house past 14 years it's haunted. Unluckiest time of my life, grave yard funnilly enough I feel safe and at peace always

[@timpearce3314]

I agree! it,s good to be in a haunted house, it,s peaceful and content, It,s the "living who hurt you , not the dead!"....

[@davidfinney-gm3ij]

good afternoon. I like all these. Thank you?

[@eileenlocke7877]

Thank u luv tales bout witches etc jus found ur channel thank u 🙏

[@maryjanefawcett7515]

Liam Dale! Such an amazing narrator. He has a channel too.

[@brianhodgson9547]

Nice channel ... VERY atmospheric

[@Benspooky]

You have a good reading voice iust found this channel this is the first video i have now subscribed and liked 👍 i will now watch your old vids and catch up 😂

[@GreatBritishChannel]

We're glad you liked the video. Thank you for subscribing. Please let us know which videos you enjoy the most.

[@user-mb7gs1fq7r]

❤🐾👣 12:00 am bewitched hour, and 3:00 devil's hour .

[@elizabethbrown8833]

Quite bizarre the executions were recorded in art but important th awful truths be known..so many church records were destroyed.💔🙏🏻

[@markusferris]

I certainly DID enjoy watching this video! Liked and subscribed. Please keep up the good work! You take such care with this craft and it shows.

[@6Haunted-Days]

They didn’t make this video or any of them I hope you know….I assumed most knew this other than 5yr olds maybe but I’ve since been shocked to learn ADULTS that…..I guess think sometimes…..sometimes thought this….insanely silly thought….so 😂🙄🤷🏼‍♀️🚌

[@thomasalverson2431]

Absolutely superb. Very well done.

[@carolmayhardie]

I enjoyed it but can I suggest it be renamed the great English channel as no mention of Scotland and it's huge number of witches and ghosts was metioned. What about Mother Shipton, North Berwick Law, The grassmarket in Edinburgh as well as Greyfriars graveyard to name a very few.

[@Sylkenwolf]

A Christmas Carol is our favorite story at Christmas. We read it and watch the film! Macbeth is my favorite "Scottish Play". Your storytelling style is 👌👌👌! Can't wait for more!

[@GreatBritishChannel]

So glad you're enjoying the videos and thank you for subscribing.

[@ernestweaver9720]

Who put Bella in the Witch Elm??? We may Never Know.

[@Lucyjayne-jz1or]

Bella put herself in there 😂

[@incredibleflameboy]

*wytch elm. It's an older version on the word but oddly was what was graffitied originally and the spelling of the name of the type of tree.

[@mattmanglos2179]

I wake up from 3 am to 4 am every single night. I haven’t had good sleep since I’ve lived elsewhere. I also literally live across the street from a cemetery.

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

When ran for their lives they left a record's of the remedy so later that the medical professionals can claim victory over their theft of property and deemed it okay for men to be in control. I heard after awhile that the witch hunters were said to be that themselves as one, and then the suspicion fell upon them and they tried to stop the rumors it's strange the same thing that started it wind up their own victim of their own fate, so I've heard. I also heard is that two infamous witch hunters had a lot going for them until people came to their senses and refused them and rumors about them saying they were a couple.

[@CreweGhostAdventures]

I have many videos of graveyards at night with voices of restless people who once walked this planet in living form.

[@mham1330]

Can you imagine hiding from the Queen's henchmen and having to relieve yourself and you dare not for you would give yourself away?

[@jillybean2681]

I don’t know why but this tail I like this kind of stuff I always will

[@OsvaldoCesarArdiles635]

Hello LIAM 🙋, congratulations well done👍 , very very interesting your channel , I agree today ....I'm OSVALDO CESAR ARDILES from ARGENTINE 🙋🇦🇷, regards for you and my sincere of wishes , success to you and your channel ..I hace seen it and ir seened to me EXELLENT , to continúe like this 👏👏👏👏👏

[@infinitud4043]

Excelente y lo mejor es que se puede traducir al español. Hablo poco en inglés. Ahora super feliz😅

[@Lucia-pd6fi]

Love it!

[@eileenlocke7877]

Luv it thank u

[@Teaandabuscut]

Anyone else think the narrator sounds quite similar to Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean).

[@Laura-tp8wz]

Thanks

[@kerethmakura4502]

Interesting stories if only they could edit out the silly sound effects.

[@EDDIELANE]

i spilled my drink when this HUGE scream happened at random.

[@seasonsofmelody]

My local pub is haunted. It has a headless pint! 👻🍺

[@richardsebour4602]

So many ads you can't even enjoy the the documentary!?!?

[@m-o-l]

I gave up watching T.V. because of adverts .. Now we have the same problem here on social media. Luckily, there's a choice, we don't need to listen . Of course nobody grudges someone earning coin 🪙 but too many ads spoils the whole atmosphere .

[@GreatBritishChannel]

Apologies for all the ad's. I hadn't realised now many KZbin had automatically placed on the video. I've adjusted this now . Thank you for pointing this out.

[@jackson77722]

@@m-o-l Excuse this advert, but get. Total Adblocker...Ad-Block.

[@davidcooke7744]

Tommy knocker’s Tommy knockers living under ground.

[@pheart2381]

Shakespeare wouldn't have used a steel nib!

[@JayGideon-7]

Great visuals and sourced material. I think it would be just as believable without the narrator adopting an ominous way of speaking. Although, I admit spooky voices work great with kids.

[@6Haunted-Days]

They didn’t make this video or any of them I hope you know….I assumed most knew this other than 5yr olds maybe but I’ve since been shocked to learn ADULTS that…..I guess think sometimes…..sometimes thought this….insanely silly thought….so 😂🙄🤷🏼‍♀️🚌

[@6Haunted-Days]

But serisojly…..you THOUGHT that this channel did thus? Mmmmmk. Ummmm it’s over 25 YEARS OLD….Christ….and that’s Liam Dale….he’s narrated many many BBC ghost docs….so yea apparently many love style……certainly A LOT BETTER than current insane crap videos we see now on ghosts.

[@JayGideon-7]

@@6Haunted-Days I stand by my statement. I have no interest in who made this or when. I merely said that I didn’t see the need for spooky narration. Okay? I have no agenda. I also had praise for the video.

[@thetowerstillstands]

As Sir Terry Pratchett pointed out - people RARELY die IN graveyards/cemeteries.

[@paranormalchannelx1307]

Any hour is witching hour ♥️🇬🇧✝️

[@antosiaantosia1005]

when he was in a wheelchair while playing games with his peers, the elder who started acting towards me was dressed in monk's robes when he approached the building where he lived, he changed his floors which appeared which were not there when it started opening up to me , which was not there for him Energy notification It was not even in the behavior of the person being directed, please explain about the character

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

So they weren't embellishing anything about the movie of the Jamaica Inn that I had the enjoyment of watching 😱, there was a t shirt that said it not like I sold my soul, it's more like a rent to own,I was thinking 😏🤨🙄😁😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ I think I should have gotten it for a few people that I know 😏😏🤨

[@user-fe6zc8yu3i]

😂😂😂

[@greypowergav]

ya wally the witching hour is 3am ......

[@ranamcmahon7653]

That is correct.

[@yvonnehayton6753]

That's what I just said.

[@carladavis4639]

No, it's actually the Devil's hour. Christ was crucified at 3pm and the Devil chose 3am as an insult. Witches and Devils are not necessarily in league together.

[@spiritoftheforest6204]

That's the devil's hour

[@davidcooke7744]

Who put bella in the which ellm

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

Which Witch Elm?

[@69Jackjones69]

One night, when I was 13 years old, I had a dream about a beautiful naked woman and when I woke up I was covered in ectoplasm 😮

[@christopherberryhill3802]

Jolly 'ol England wasn't so jolly for 75% of the world for centuries. Proud to be an American. 🎵😆

[@yvonnehayton6753]

Not that jolly now. Nor is America

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Yes because after all, you have such an unblemished record! Slavery, genocide, napalming little kids,.... From a country that has No social system for its working classes. Where catering staff get paid $2.34 an Hour! You, be proud mate! The rest of us will continue laughing!

[@ruthanneseven]

​@yvonnehayton6753 England isn't quite so Merry. They still accuse people of evil, black magic. There's more Disney in England than Disney itself! I think many of them are still stuck in the 17th century. The facade is roughly intact, but it's troubled as a country like any other. What's excruciatingly alarming is that the Commonwealth now stoops to the CCP's level of corrupt abuse by freezing bank accounts! Not content to just trouble the "small folk", like truckers and their families, now Nigel Farage is being harrassed! We can add banks to the list of institutions we no longer trust.

[@bonniecassler7214]

We all have are darker periods,no matter what part of the globe we live on. Humanity isn't perfect,so our world can't be,either.

[@adoculos4521]

That's so funny as America is a backward, highly corrupt country with mass shootings every week, and it's falling apart.

[@cm9439]

I enjoyed the video, except for the stupid camera movement and extraneous screams. You have a great voice for this material. Thank you.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Put me off too. Especially when there was nothing to 'scream about' As in the case of Harvington, which is not Officially haunted. It is owned by the Catholic Church, who take a dim view of ghost hunters embellishing tales. Despite all the preparations, there is No Evidence that it was ever searched, or the hides were used in fear. Most visitors don't find it 'foreboding' either, in fact it is seen as a place of pilgrimage by many of the Catholic persuasion. When he started talking about Wych elms,I was half expecting to get 'Bella' but strictly speaking she isn't a ghost. Although some considered her fate to be the work of a Satanic Cult. All just a few miles from Harvington. While dealing with Catholic secret .he missed 'Gideon Grove' too, an innocent victim of the Gunpowder plotters last stand at Holbeache house, again just up the road from Harvington. the fact that no one has ever been able to prove Gideon even existed is neither here nor there! Why let a simple fact like that get in the way of a good ghost story! No screams or embellishments required.

[@sking3492]

That was the camera man who was having a quick smoke, someone had put a Match stick head into the tobacco 😂😂😂

[@peterlloydalmalbis7783]

👍

[@devoradamaris]

🫂🌎🫂sharing🫂thankYOU

[@Thunor93]

Early for once, whoop

[@OctoberWraith-gg4pe]

Nice 🚬🎃

[@peregrinemccauley5010]

You don't muck about witt the introduction. Musak great .

[@peregrinemccauley5010]

Corr blimey, thanks.

[@kencook7580]

Intro went on for so long, I became bored and nearly turned this off !

[@OhSoSeptical]

Over two minutes just to get to the actual story telling 🥱

[@davidcooke7744]

I have been in the hall

[@albertedwarddeguzman4012]

[@petergore1972]

Peter Gore Seer, Olde England, Witch Finders Useing Hot Spikes To Create Witches,I Persanaly Could Never Create A Witch, Ghosts Well Thay Were Every Place.

[@stuartbryce]

there no r in bath

[@user-cf3iz6cl5q]

Commercials every 2 minutes is too much, it is really annoying!

[@jackson77722]

Total Adblock - Adblocker.

[@yvonnehayton6753]

Thought the Witching Hour was 3am?

[@carladavis4639]

No, that's the Devil's hour. It's an inversion of when Christ was crucified at 3pm.

[@courtneyheverling4610]

It is. Thank you! Half of theses folks in the comments say it is midnight. But I refuse to argue with ignorance.

[@courtneyheverling4610]

​@@carladavis4639never have I ever even heard of such nonsense.

[@carladavis4639]

Google has. Maybe look up some of the books on the subject before calling people ignorant.

[@jenniferrich7176]

Intro was too long

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

And very annoying. I almost left and looked for something else less OTT

[@jenniferrich7176]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 I did

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

@@jenniferrich7176 You didn't miss much!

[@LeslieAB30]

Mr W.S. was still on the other realms of Earth into the 1950s. The yoga Master Sir George King was overshadowed by him at least once. It was on one of these occasions that William stated "I acted in the plays and produced some of them, but I never wrote them". The term 'supernatural' should be removed from our dictionaries as everything in the universe happens within the laws of nature. Paranormal things may be, but NOT supernatural.

[@carolweaver3269]

Our Present will be our Past , Tomorrow. Live it as well as you can and do not take it forward, In the bible Lot's wife , looked back, and turned into a pillar of salt. Salt preserves. We must do our best and be who we are meant to be while here, today. But none of us are perfect and never will be. Tomorrow will bring its own light. (Or darkness) Where are we 'Today?" That will make tomorrow, better or worse. Each day is a new Present. While here,

[@baileycat7225]

I appreciate the info, but that 2 minute intro was way too long.

[@JJJulesToo]

Oh....this is about fictional ghosts. Not about real haunts. Gotcha.

[@dobythedog]

Skip 5 minutes from the beginning to avoid 5 minutes of nothingness.

[@chrisnewport7826]

Boo!

[@GreatBritishChannel]

Ahhhh! You scared me

[@chrisnewport7826]

@@GreatBritishChannel just a teddybear unless angry, miss London. Save your country from its enemies.

[@HarryMarsee-fw9ot]

OVER TWO minutes of ear shattering noise to "set the scene" is just too irritating and totally UNNECESSARY!

[@SkiiDreamr420]

48:44 Should I get the opportunity to come to Cornwall and see the tin mines. I shall take an offering to the knockers. Kindness costs little. A few cigarettes 🚬 or a sandwich 🥪 lunch. When in Rome...

[@danamarcotteseiler7423]

Sad thing that the pomp and class of those days is gone

[@kencook7580]

Lost interest in the prolonged intro. What a load of codswallop.

[@michaelplanchunas3693]

Quit watching after 1:30 minute+ introduction. Better luck next time.

[@6Haunted-Days]

Chelates dickens did NOT IMVENT the Xmas ghost story i was f,pored when you said that 🙄😂🤣 it’s just NOT TRUE. he revived it…sure….this guy was NOT a very nice man …..I love his books started my love of classical literature with him at 12….Bleak House. Sigh …..but far as him….don’t care at all…..

[@yvonnehansen267]

im not impresed expeckted more

[@HarryMarsee-fw9ot]

The Bible expressly FORBIDS using diving rods!

[@christopherskipp1525]

There are no ghosts.

[@HarryMarsee-fw9ot]

Apparently the people who tell these stories do not understand the Christian faith. When a devote believer is martyred for the faith, he or she goes IMMEDIATELY into the presence of Jesus to receive his or her reward. They do not 'hang about' as ghosts!

[@musasiziannet6015]

Isaiah55:6&7,"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon." Repent, receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior today.This is God's invitation for redemption, Jesus loves you so much and he is the only WAY to eternity.God bless you

[@feeltheforce10]

The Lord you mentioned was NOT GOD OR JESUS buT Yahweh.Old testament which has no meaning to us at all as the law of Moses is gone and we are under grace. You are in serious error if you think it was Jesus in Isaiah - The Lord Yahweh was an ELOHIM to Israel and its people only.

[@musasiziannet6015]

@@feeltheforce10 I know there's only one God, in both testaments.God bless you though for taking the time to read and reply

[@derekpimm7506]

2:13 seconds just to introduce the video that led to a very boring intro. Sorry but what could have been an interesting programme was ruined. Terrible narration.

[@courtneyheverling4610]

Midnight is not the witching hour. The witching hour is 3am.

[@d3vilz_lair666]

Who says? Ghost spirit demon or liberal

[@carladavis4639]

Witches actually. Midnight is their hour.

[@courtneyheverling4610]

Which I am sure you must think you are a Witch,let me guess Wiccan?

[@carladavis4639]

Cradle witch actually, thanks for asking. ☺️

[@ruthanneseven]

Real Witches don't recognize a "devil" or Satan. Any hour can be a "Witching" hour. What is certain, is that IF and WHEN that hour exists, no one would know the time. It's all christian propaganda. Many other absurd "facts" were not only pre-planned to be admitted through the use of disturbing methods of torture. What's even more horrific, is that these facts were dreamed up by church officials who never failed to find fault with female kind. In my many decades of life, the most disturbed people have been mainstream religious people. Their hubris, murderous and greedy ways are not legend, they are recorded history. Bad news folk, they clearly be!

[@RapiersSting]

meh dickens can't compare to POE for scary stories

[@ctb7376]

intro too long .. not enough time .. gonna come back and haunt you ...

[@flaviamarcato1750]

Love it!

[@GreatBritishChannel]

So glad and thank you for subscribing. Lots more to come soon

[@joeswampdawghenry]

Boo!

[@GreatBritishChannel]

AHHH!!. You scared me 😮