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Category: 19th Century

Hunting for Mary Wollstonecraft’s Grave

July 19, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Today the Wollstonecraft/Godwin grave survives as an unassuming block of stone beside far grander memorials...

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 Dog of Tingewick

March 29, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Spectral spaniel or fake Fido? You decide...

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.

Whitby’s Hidden Quaker Burial Ground

November 25, 2021February 2, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 2 Comments

Whitby’s Quaker burial ground is impressively well hidden. To most passers-by, it looks like a garden extension to some of the more grander Georgian houses on Bagdale.

Ye Olde Eco-Burial: The Trapdoor Coffin

November 4, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

In the 16th and 17th centuries, plenty of rural parishes in Scotland utilised a communal coffin of sorts called a ‘common mortkist’, ‘bier’ or ‘parish coffin’.

D.C. The Demon Cat

October 9, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

The snappily named ‘Demon Cat’, or ‘D.C.’ for short, is one of several reported ghosts that haunt the sprawling government buildings in Washington D. C

Big Surprises and Bigger Vaults at Laceby Cemetery

September 26, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

A village on the outskirts of Grimsby isn’t exactly the typical location for an enormous Norwegian funerary monument.

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