{"id":8618,"date":"2026-10-19T18:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:41:01","slug":"spooky-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8618","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was telling spooky stories today at a care home I visit regularly. I told the<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong> Phantom Inn<\/strong><\/span> which is a good ghost story and a local connection.<\/p>\n<p>We had a lovely Friday evening with our two delightful grandsons taking them to <strong>Slimbridge<\/strong> for their <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Mystical\u00a0 Marsh Lantern Experience.<\/strong><\/span> It was beautifully done and the highlight for me was watching them running and dancing at the silent disco!<\/p>\n<p>Very disappointed with the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong> <\/span>losing to Mordor on Saturday &#8211; we must take our chances! I am off to watch them tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PHOTO-2026-10-16-20-49-34.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8619\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8619\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PHOTO-2026-10-16-20-49-34.jpg?fit=948%2C1441&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"948,1441\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PHOTO-2026-10-16-20-49-34\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PHOTO-2026-10-16-20-49-34.jpg?fit=584%2C887&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8619\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PHOTO-2026-10-16-20-49-34.jpg?resize=413%2C617&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"617\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was telling spooky stories today at a care home I visit regularly. I told the Phantom Inn which is a good ghost story and a local connection. We had a lovely Friday evening with our two delightful grandsons taking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8618\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-2f0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8620,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions\/8620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}