Nov 1, 2026 · 1 hr · 11 segments
Author, lecturer and Ghost Club Secretary, Dr Robert Radakovic chats about his unintentional psychic sleuth, Dr Oliver Yewtree and his other ghostly novel: Shuffle off this Mortal Coil. We talk about…
In particular, because I used to be a medieval written actor and I still teach a lot around life in the 15th century, especially during the War of the Roses.
So hence, you know, some of my firsthand research covers the area and the surrounding areas.
So if we're thinking about the same night ghost, there are sightings seen not only in Enfield, but as far as I give walks and talks in a place called Camlet Moat.
which is at the north end of Trent Park, which is a large country park, which has a road going through it that takes you from one end, not quite the centre of Enfield, but goes all the way to the monument of the Battle of Barnet.
And sometimes people ascribe a sighting or an event to the War of the Roses, where actually I think it might go back a little bit earlier to the 12th century to Camlet Moat and a guy called Sir Geoffrey de Manville, who was a knight.
Or vice versa, people are thinking they're seeing Sir Geoffrey de Manville from Camelot Moat, but actually I think it's more likely to be from the Wars of the Roses.
The Battle of Barnet, as you probably know much more than me, was quite a decisive battle in the War of the Roses.
At the end of it, as I understand it, a lot of the soldiers sort of scattered.
A lot of those will have come south, probably traipsing through my back garden as it is now in other places.
But as I understand it, there's an entity that is seen in full armour, but quite often with a red cross on a white background chainmail.
not often a helmet but sometimes a helmet and that has been seen not only near the monument but also to the south there's a place called Oakley Park and to the east I've already mentioned which is Trent Park and Camlet Moat but all of that land in the 12th century was owned by Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville And so I think, and there's a lot of grey ladies, blue ladies, white ladies, lots of different, all seen around the monument and the Monk and Hadley area.
So, yeah, I'm not sure whether the night relates to War of the Roses, whether there are a number of nights that are seen or whether it's a de Mandeville thing where actually there's some potential.
but potential links to the Knights Templar, which is why the area that I talked about called Camelot Moat was actually, if you look at old maps, is actually called Camelot Moat.
And there are some definite links to the Knights Templar, but they go back a long way.
wearing? So, other than the red cross and the white background that I've seen, artists' descriptions I think I've heard seem to have something cape-like.
Now, whether that's so, I've seen that more than I have heard about chain mail.
In particular, because I used to be a medieval written actor and I still teach a lot around life in the 15th century, especially during the War of the Roses.
So hence, you know, some of my firsthand research covers the area and the surrounding areas.
So if we're thinking about the same night ghost, there are sightings seen not only in Enfield, but as far as I give walks and talks in a place called Camlet Moat.
which is at the north end of Trent Park, which is a large country park, which has a road going through it that takes you from one end, not quite the centre of Enfield, but goes all the way to the monument of the Battle of Barnet.
And sometimes people ascribe a sighting or an event to the War of the Roses, where actually I think it might go back a little bit earlier to the 12th century to Camlet Moat and a guy called Sir Geoffrey de Manville, who was a knight.
Or vice versa, people are thinking they're seeing Sir Geoffrey de Manville from Camelot Moat, but actually I think it's more likely to be from the Wars of the Roses.
The Battle of Barnet, as you probably know much more than me, was quite a decisive battle in the War of the Roses.
At the end of it, as I understand it, a lot of the soldiers sort of scattered.
A lot of those will have come south, probably traipsing through my back garden as it is now in other places.
But as I understand it, there's an entity that is seen in full armour, but quite often with a red cross on a white background chainmail.
not often a helmet but sometimes a helmet and that has been seen not only near the monument but also to the south there's a place called Oakley Park and to the east I've already mentioned which is Trent Park and Camlet Moat but all of that land in the 12th century was owned by Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville And so I think, and there's a lot of grey ladies, blue ladies, white ladies, lots of different, all seen around the monument and the Monk and Hadley area.
So, yeah, I'm not sure whether the night relates to War of the Roses, whether there are a number of nights that are seen or whether it's a de Mandeville thing where actually there's some potential.
but potential links to the Knights Templar, which is why the area that I talked about called Camelot Moat was actually, if you look at old maps, is actually called Camelot Moat.
And there are some definite links to the Knights Templar, but they go back a long way.
wearing? So, other than the red cross and the white background that I've seen, artists' descriptions I think I've heard seem to have something cape-like.
Now, whether that's so, I've seen that more than I have heard about chain mail.
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