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Dark accusations destroy families in Lancashire
Essex: A county bounded by water, flat, marshy and called by some the “graveyard of witches”. Between 1500 and 1800 over 1,000 men, women and children were executed for the crime of witchcraft in the
Isolated, beautiful, brooding: Lancashire’s Pendle Hill is a place of tales dark – and light.
On the morning of 4 August 1577, the good Christian folk of Bungay assembled in St Mary’s Church for their regular Sunday service. But more sinister forces were also gathering in the Suffolk town. Dar
Rylan Clark and Alice Roberts investigate the twisted history of the Essex witch trials…
At these infamous addresses , Britain’s worst crimes took place
Just where did all the weird ghosts go is a question that has been posed in Fortean Times. One answer might be Wales. Ghost hunter John Harries declared, “In order to meet a Welsh ghost one really nee