True Ghost Stories Part 3 - The Ghosts Of Greenwich Park.

If you've ever been for a walk around the beautiful Greenwich Park you'll know what a truly stunning place it is. Over one hundred hectares of open parkland filled with a vast selection of trees, the rose gardens, flower gardens and deer enclosure. During a hot summers day or a drizzly October afternoon you'd think it was the last place to expect to see ghosts. How wrong you'd be.

One of the most locally well known stories is that of the great blob of Greenwich Park. Named so as whenever it has been spotted it appears as a large black mist among the trees. It was a story I once brushed off as local legend. Until one day I spotted it. Whilst happilly walking along the lower part of the park by the Queens House I spotted something dark among the trees. It wasn't a particularly dull day but you could clearly see something moving. 

The blob as it is locally known is more likely to be a large chunk of energy that flits around, or it could be a ghost of a spirit surrounded by negativity, it could also be a spirit who wishes to not be identified so goes about as an energy form rather then an apparition.  This summer whilst walking along the path that runs by the Observatory I stopped and watched what looked like a low black cloud of mist come down the hill and across towards the Queens House. Could it have yet again been the mysterious blob. These pictures were not taken at the time I spotted it but show the group of trees where the blob is most commonly seen lurking amongst.

There is a quiet little spot that I like to visit in the park where I usually have my summer picnics. There is a large tree to the side which has always mesmerised me. The branches are so low that they touch the grass and children are often playing in there. That particular patch has two resident ravens which are often in the tree. Last summer I was having a picnic and saw a young woman dressed in a long white dress with long blonde hair suddenly walk out from beneath the tree. At first I thought she was just someone enjoying a walk about, when she completely vanished as quickly as she had appeared before my eyes.  The person I was picnicing with also saw her and was rather spooked. A few seconds later one of the ravens flew into the tree in the exact spot she had emerged. I go to that part frequently and always look to see if she will show herself again.  Could she be a long lost spirit of the Queens House from when it was a palace?

Another local legend which goes unnoticed by many is the mysterious deer tree just by the observatory. If you stand in front of it you will see a stag looking back at you. Is this a picture of a ghost stag from the nearby deer enclosure or one of the wild deer famously hunted by royalty when there was a palace on the site? Just beside the deer is the face of a monkey, what other secrets does this ancient tree hold?
The deer tree can be found below, what do you see?

 Here is another ghostly picture from Greenwich Park from earlier this year that I took. If you look to the right of this tree you can see what appears the be a small calf.