Colwick Woods sits on the eastern edge of Nottingham as a public nature reserve, a stretch of woodland with the kind of quiet, slightly overgrown atmosphere that tends to attract informal ghost stories from people who walk through it regularly, whether or not any specific event actually happened there.
The story attached to the woods holds that the ghosts of two children can be seen or felt somewhere within it, usually described as connected to a tragedy that befell them at some point in the past. No version of this story circulating online supplies a date, a name, a location within the woods more specific than "the woods" itself, or any other detail that would let a researcher check it against a real historical record. It has the shape of a piece of local hearsay repeated informally rather than a documented case.
It is included here in line with this project's approach of writing up thin, single-source stories honestly rather than dropping them, but readers should treat it as exactly what it is: an undated, unverified local tradition with no supporting detail currently available, tagged accordingly.
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