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I know about the Hand of Glory.  I know about Borley Rectory. I know all sorts of arcane folklore which… Read more Wray Scarecrow Festival 2024

So many generations of Lowthers and their outrageous historic deeds. Such a multitude of history books appertaining to their historic… Read more St Michael’s Church, Lowther and Sir James Lowther is dead

‘The old quaint chapel of Wasdale Head, one of the most truly picturesque in the hills…sinking into the earth with… Read more The Liar of Wasdale Head

I have  travelled miles by car, phone signal dead, peering for unknown landmarks along unknown lanes.  It is one of… Read more The Secret Graveyard

Upholland prides itself as an ‘historic village’, the signs declare it such a place.  We have travelled the urban roads… Read more A story of a shit highwayman from a place near Wigan you have probably never heard of

Under a carved stone down an ancient quiet lane in deepest darkest Lancashire, supposably lies a trapped boggart, a relic… Read more The Longridge Boggart

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