Today I am going to share a ghost story with probably one of the most mundane settings in the whole of the UK. It will be of no surprise to anyone who lives in Biggleswade to discover that the town holds that accolade of most mundane setting for a haunting. Yes, in Biggleswade we can boast a haunted pub (probably more than one.) a haunted bridge, known as murder bridge, and a headless horseman. But Biggleswade also boats the bone chillingly scary, wait for it, haunted Pound Stretcher! Yes on the high street there is a rather ordinary and slightly shabby Pound Stretcher shop selling cheap cleaning products, fizzy drinks, pet supplies, plastic garden tat and other odds and ends. This pound stretcher, however is haunted.
The staff have called their ghost Aggie and she apparently shows stock on to the floor, messed about with the lights in the mens toilets and clatters about making a racket! Spooky! You can read all about Biggleswade's ghosts here and here.
But whether you believe in ghosts or not I think the sharing of ghost stories, urban myths and folklore is interesting in of its self. I love the way different cultures have different takes on similar folklore and urban myths. Each emphasising unique anxieties within their own culture or society. Just as over time the folk tales and urban myths evolve within a society. I'm glad we have a tradition of sharing spooky stories on dark, stormy nights. Such a tradition brought us Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. If I get time I may dedicate a blog post to the urban myths and ghost stories of Japan; now there's a country with some seriously freaky stories!
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