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
Woodplumpton. A small parish five miles away from Preston. Home of a dead ‘witch’ in a churchyard. Somebody is very… 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