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The Ghst of Blue Bell Hill & Other Road Ghosts |
The Ghost of Blue Bell Hill traces the journey of Britain's and the World's foremost Road Ghost, from legend to compelling fact. In its examination of the case's history, folklore and eyewitness testimony, and by drawing apt comparisons with numbers of similar cases, it presents persuasive evidence for a phenomenon that - far from being an invention of folklore - has been a genuine feature of human experience since the earliest days of overland travel.
The completed manuscript, consisting of an introduction and eleven chapters, runs to 110,000 words (128,000 including chapter notes, collated as an appendix).
Reasonable amendments to length and content to fit publisher’s requirements may be possible.
Illustrations (location maps; drawings) & photographs to be included - numbers/type by agreement.
For further details and a synopsis, please to contact the author.
Biography
Sean Tudor read Geological Sciences at the University of Aston in Birmingham, graduating in 1986. Having had a lifelong interest in ‘Fortean’ subjects, he first heard the story of Blue Bell Hill’s ghost on the same day he moved with his family to Maidstone, Kent, in 1981. Sean currently lives in Sittingbourne, Kent with his wife and daughter.
Published credits (full features):
'Hit and Myth' (in 'Road Ghosts') Fortean Times 73, February/March 1994, pp.27-31.
Fortean Times 73-77 (compilation: 'Mouthful of Mysteries', John Brown Publishing Ltd, 1998), issue 73, pp.28-31.
'Hell's Belles', Fortean Times 104, November 1997, pp.36-40.
‘Los fantasmas de Blue Bell Hill’, Enigmas 12 (Spain), December 2000, pp.8-13.
In 1997, Sean's 1994 article 'Road Ghosts - Hit & Myth' served as the basis for an audio dramatization in Fortean Times 1 (a Polygram Spoken Word cassette; produced by Steve Deakin-Davies for The Ambition Company) - a collection (on two casettes) of some of the best stories from the archives of Fortean Times.
In addition, Sean has worked with a number of television companies interested in exploring Road Ghosts and Blue Bell Hill. In recent times, he has been involved in a segment on Blue Bell Hill for the revived American series of the paranormal In Search Of..., which filmed at the hill in May 2001. 2002 has thus far seen two features on the same subject, the first by Making Time for Living TV ('Scream Team'); the second for UKHorizon's 'Paranormal People'.