‘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
The Croglin Vampire
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
Sambo’s Grave, Sunderland Point, Lancashire
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
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
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
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