Haunted Peak District by Jill Armitage

Author:Jill Armitage
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750952613
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-06-20T00:00:00+00:00

The road between The Fox House and Sheffield, where a couple offered a lift to a phantom hitch-hiker.

The Replayed Road Accident

One night, a police dog-handler was driving along the road heading towards Pilsley when a figure appeared in the full beam of the headlights. Although the officer braked furiously he couldn’t avoid hitting him head on. The man bounced over the bonnet and fell. In a state of shock, the officer grabbed a torch and jumped out of his van. He released his dog who jumped out, howled pitifully and shot off down the road.

The officer searched the roadside looking for the accident victim but there was no one and the hedge was undisturbed. He checked the front of the vehicle for signs of the impact, but could see nothing. He got back inside the van and proceeded slowly down the road just to make sure the injured person hadn’t somehow stumbled away from the scene of the accident. As he drove he realised that although he had seen the impact he hadn’t felt it or heard it.

At first light, he returned to the scene of the accident but could find no trace of anything strange. Back at the police station, he began to explain what had happened but the sergeant stopped him. ‘Don’t worry about it,’ he said. ‘A man was killed at that spot many years ago and the replay is witnessed regularly.’

The Lonely Old Farmer and the Headless Cow

A man regularly drove along the A619 road from Baslow to Bakewell and on many occasions saw an old man leaning on a five-bar gate, smoking a pipe. This same old man seemed to appear so frequently that it became much more than just a coincidence. He was a ghost, and in death it would appear that this old farmer was doing what he had done in his lifetime.

There is another story that relates to a five-bar gate, this time located somewhere in the countryside near Taddington, just south of Buxton. Should you be driving around there, keep your eyes open for a headless cow. The story is that the poor beast got its head stuck in a five bar gate and try as they might, no one could get the beast’s head free. Finally, the farmer made a decision. The gate was worth more than the cow, so his head was sawn off. No wonder the poor distressed animal haunts the place.

The Cows that were Abducted

Police officer Alan Godfrey was on Burnley Road, Todmorton just after 5 a.m. looking for some lost cattle. There had been reports that they had been seen from a nearby housing estate and although patrols had looked for them, the cows seemed to have temporarily vanished. The farmer was mystified as to how they had escaped, but what was more surprising was that they turned up at dawn in a field that seemed almost inaccessible. The question was how had they moved themselves?

The field where they were found was extremely muddy because it

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