This is related to a subject that Staffordshire Folklore and I were discussing recently. Videos that are well researched and based in fact rarely do well, and are eclipsed by sensationalist entertainment that reaches the public in enormous numbers and gives them bucket loads of false information.

A popular ‘ghost hunting’ channel recently visited Chillingham Castle in Northumberland and made a video about the ghosts there. Before I discuss the folklore side of their video, this is the ‘history’ they presented the audience.

One of the guys says:
“Chillingham Castle was a battlefront between the English and Scottish for over 60 years”(?), accompanied by a picture of the Battle of Culloden, fought in 1746 hundreds of miles from the border.
To which the other follows up:
“You know the film Braveheart? Chillingham castle was in those wars!”
That’s it. That’s all the historical context you get.

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Forwarded from The Jolly Reiver

This is related to a subject that Staffordshire Folklore and I were discussing recently. Videos that are well researched and based in fact rarely do well, and are eclipsed by sensationalist entertainment that reaches the public in enormous numbers and gives them bucket loads of false information.

A popular ‘ghost hunting’ channel recently visited Chillingham Castle in Northumberland and made a video about the ghosts there. Before I discuss the folklore side of their video, this is the ‘history’ they presented the audience.

One of the guys says:
“Chillingham Castle was a battlefront between the English and Scottish for over 60 years”(?), accompanied by a picture of the Battle of Culloden, fought in 1746 hundreds of miles from the border.
To which the other follows up:
“You know the film Braveheart? Chillingham castle was in those wars!”
That’s it. That’s all the historical context you get.

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