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Paranormal record / 1932

The Marston Moor phantom Cavaliers

November 5, 1932 · Marston Moor, near Long Marston, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
16Thinly documented Paranormal Being / humanoid 17 sources 2 videos

5 November 1932. A damp, misty night on Marston Moor in Yorkshire. Tom Horner, a commercial traveller, was driving across the moor with his friend Arthur Wright. In the headlights, three men appeared on the road ahead. Large soft hats. Dark plum-coloured cloaks. Leggings. Shoulder length hair. The car slowed to pass them. They had vanished. The two friends stopped and searched, but found no one, and no hedge or wall to hide behind. Only later were they told the clothes matched those of the Cavaliers who fought and died here in 1644. Writer Kai Roberts calls it the earliest modern report of the battlefield's ghosts.

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Context

The Battle of Marston Moor was fought on 2 July 1644, west of York. About 4,000 Royalists died there, against about 300 Parliamentarians. It was one of the bloodiest days of the English Civil Wars.

Sources (17, most influential first)

  1. Do Ghosts Still Haunt The Battlefield Of Marston Moor? · Spooky Isles· 2014 · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  2. URECAT-001656: Long Marston, 5 November 1932 · Patrick Gross · Research organisation · org report
  3. Marston Moor · Mysterious Britain · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  4. Civil War Ghosts · Icy Sedgwick · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  5. Apparitions and Haunted Houses: A Survey of the Evidence (Bennett, 1939) · Faber & Faber (digitised by archive.org)· 1939 · Press, book, documentary · book