Westwood and Simpson categorize a wide variety of English spirits, ranging from the historic to the strangely modern:
: Reports of a phantom army marching across the landscape and the Black Dog of Shap Fell , whose appearance is said to foretell fatal accidents. Haunted England: The Penguin Book of Ghosts
: Headless highwaymen and modern legends like the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill or the Blackwall Tunnel. Westwood and Simpson categorize a wide variety of