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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.

Bent Spoons and Sensotrons: Uri Geller’s Strike!

March 4, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

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

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."

90s Pop Necromancy: S Club 7 and the Occult

December 9, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

S Club 7 have always been brazen occultists, hidden in plain sight...

“I did not give them willingly”: The Friesthorpe Window

November 11, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

A small rural church in Friesthorpe, Lincolnshire holds one of the most poignant memorials to the sacrifices of war in the form of a beautiful stained glass window.

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.

The Fertile Grave of Victor Noir

September 20, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

The frankly massive bulge in Noir’s trousers made his memorial a popular destination for women visiting Père Lachaise for over a century...

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