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

What makes terror? Is it what you can see, just for a split second  or what you can only imagine? … Read more Cursed Objects

‘It seems that he had both the good and bad qualities of man about him in a very large degree.… Read more The Gypsy King of Kirkcudbright

A pile of old books scavenged from an old old bookshop in Carlisle but with surprisingly modern prices.  Books about… Read more The Croglin Vampire

A child, brought into the earth kicking and screaming. Born into a place of heat and hot clay earth, home… Read more Sambo’s Grave, Sunderland Point, Lancashire

St Peter’s Church, Heysham. A small ancient church dating back from the seventh or eighth century, containing much of the… Read more The Drowned, the Vikings, Pinky and Perky and Heysham, Lancashire