Hertfordshire Mountaineering Club

HMC – Happy Halloween!

Dear HMC members

Its Halloween, the magical day when spooks, spectres and ghosts take on a more opaque form and can manifest themselves in all sorts of places. A a special HMC update, here are a few scary and spooky mysteries surrounding some of the UK’s peaks and national parks.

Spooky Snowdonia: Two Snowdonia Ghost Stories For Halloween

http://visitsnowdonia.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/spooky-snowdonia-two-snowdonia-ghost-stories-for-halloween/

The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui

http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/index.php/unclassified/160-the-big-grey-man-of-ben-macdhui-cairngorms-scotland

The legends of Dartmoor

http://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/ghosts_of_dartmoor.htm

The Ghostly Planes of the Dark Peak

http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/home-page-c101141.html

Have a very Spooky Halloween and stay safe on bonfire night (anyone remember that scary public information advert in the 1980s when the little girl picked up a hot sparkler – ouch!)

Steve Deaville

HMC Secretary

thesecretary@thehmc.co.uk