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Sambo’s Grave, Sunderland Point, Lancashire

Posted on October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 by SoilStoneBone

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

The Drowned, the Vikings, Pinky and Perky and Heysham, Lancashire

Posted on October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 by SoilStoneBone

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

A Hangman’s Grave

Posted on August 11, 2020August 12, 2020 by SoilStoneBone

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

The Woodplumpton Witch

Posted on August 9, 2020August 11, 2020 by SoilStoneBone

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

Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 by SoilStoneBone

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

Posted on August 9, 2020August 11, 2020 by SoilStoneBone

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

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