Joseph Wilson, hangman, a local man from local lineage, many of his family to be found in St Bridgets Churchyard… Read more A Hangman’s Grave
Month: August 2020
The Woodplumpton Witch
Somebody is very cross on Trip Adviser that the pub in Woodplumpton has been categorised as being in Blackpool instead… Read more The Woodplumpton Witch
The Fake Witch of Kirkcudbright
I found this story in ‘Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the Southwestern District of Scotland’ (J. Maxwell Wood, 1911) My… Read more The Fake Witch of Kirkcudbright
The Haunted Tree of Auchencairn
It is raining, absolutely pissing down in the committed resolute implacable way that rain tends to fall during the Scottish… Read more The Haunted Tree of Auchencairn