Welcome to Britain's most haunted place where 'every home has a ghost' - including the spirits of monks, soldiers, witches and animals.
The ancient village of Dunster in Somerset is filled with stories of the undead stalking the houses, castle, pubs and hills.
It was once home to a large Benedictine chapel which was destroyed when Henry VIII was King - which apparently saw it flooded with ghosts.
Some locals say almost every building is haunted - by everything from Civil War troops to 'grey ladies' and horses.
Locals have today described the various spooky goings on in Dunster.
The ancient village of Dunster in Somerset is filled with stories of the undead stalking the houses, castle, pubs and hills.
It was once home to a large Benedictine chapel which was destroyed when Henry VIII was King - which apparently saw it flooded with ghosts.
Some locals say almost every building is haunted - by everything from Civil War troops to 'grey ladies' and horses.
Locals have today described the various spooky goings on in Dunster.
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00:00 I'm Nina Dodd, I'm the author of The Witches, Giants and a Ghost Cat Book.
00:22 We moved from Finland to this area 12 years ago.
00:26 I realised that there is a massive gap in the market for any sort of travel guides.
00:33 I thought, well, I worked as a journalist in Finland for 15 years, so I'm used to writing
00:37 and I thought that would be quite interesting a project to do.
00:41 But then I thought, well, just a normal travel guide.
00:43 I thought, yeah, I'd like to have a little bit of a twist to it.
00:47 I have a British husband and every time we visited his parents, I would always hear these
01:11 ghost stories.
01:12 I've always been so intrigued by the amount of ghost stories there are in this country.
01:19 Ghost stories are thousands of years old.
01:24 Nearly every culture and every country around the globe has ghost stories, but I find that
01:29 Britain is especially ripe with stories.
01:32 I started gathering the stories, so I put a little ad in the local newsletter saying
02:01 that I'm planning on writing a book about ghosts and could people come and just come
02:07 forward and tell me their stories.
02:09 I had a few people come in the shop and then after that, basically, I just went around
02:14 the village and basically anyone that I knew was living in the village or had lived here
02:18 before or worked here before, I would just basically tell them, "Tell me, I'm sure you
02:24 know some stories."
02:25 I counted and I got over 60 ghost stories in here just of the village.
02:38 I would like to write a children's book next, so maybe something to do with ghosts.
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