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life, death, and the weird bits in-between

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Author: Kate Cherrell

I'm Kate, writer, editor, and creator of Burials and Beyond. By trade, I'm a writer and spooky lecturer-for-hire, but can usually be found lurking in cemeteries, archives, haunted houses, darkened rooms, or antiques shops, getting up to no good.

The Hardy Tree

June 26, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

The Hardy Tree is a centuries-old ash tree surrounded by a radiating circle of densely-packed headstones. But why was it created?

The Hangman’s Locket

May 2, 2022May 2, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

As much as the Victorians revelled in beauty and sentimentality, they really were a bunch of morbid sods at heart.

The Ghost Clown of Flaybrick Cemetery

April 21, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

‘There’s a clown in my graveyard, what am-ah-gonna-do?’ the people of Birkenhead once yelled in the early 1990s. Or at least they would have done if they were particularly big UB40 fans.

Jacques Cazotte and the Dinner Party of Terror

April 5, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

In 1788, one year before the Reign of Terror began, a writer and would-be mystic was at a dinner party. Jacques Cazotte was a man of standing and was dining with the great and good aristocrats of France, poised to spoil everyone’s appetites.

The Ghost Dog of Tingewick

March 29, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Spectral spaniel or fake Fido? You decide...

Bent Spoons and Sensotrons: Uri Geller’s Strike!

March 4, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 1 Comment

Uri Geller's Strike! is quite possibly one of the strangest games ever to hit toyshop shelves.

London’s Secret Victorian Pet Cemetery

February 2, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Hyde Park's hidden pet cemetery's once described as 'the most horrible spectacle in Britain.'

The Car Park Grave of Mary Ellis

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Beneath the tarmac of Loews Theater car park in New Brunswick lie the remains of Mary Ellis. For the last 193 years, she has occupied a prime parking spot; a strange conclusion to a romantic and tragic life.

Ghosts on Film: Hampton Court Palace

January 18, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

See them walking hand in hand across the bridge at midnight...

The Weirdest Epitaph in America: Sterling Hallard Bright Drake

December 30, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

"‘An idealist and a dreamer, he died of loneliness and a broken heart, searching for a shrine he never found."

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