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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."

Going Out in Style! Ghana’s Fantasy Coffins

December 19, 2021December 19, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Fantasy, figurative or proverbial coffins (abebuu adekai), are unusual, transient memorials, being elaborate representations of the deceased’s interests, dreams and achievements.

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...

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.

“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.

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

The Russian Gangster Cemetery

October 2, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Russia's gangsters were never going to settle for a subtle headstone and floral border.

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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