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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 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.

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.

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."

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’.

Nanette Stocker, the Smallest Woman in the Kingdom

August 29, 2021August 29, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Nanette (incorrectly recorded as ‘Nanetta’ on her stone) is a forgotten music hall star and little person who died with a huge following.

William Mackenzie’s Liverpool Pyramid

July 25, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

The idea of a hunched poker-playing corpse inside a pyramid has a undeniable more public appeal.

A Trip to Avebury Church: Henge Not Included

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Sitting in the metaphorical shadow of Avebury’s mystical stone circle is the little modest structure of St James' Church.

“I decided to hide Charlie Chaplin’s body and solve my problems…”

June 5, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 1 Comment

On 12th December 1978, Roman Wardas, a 24-year old Polish refugee took to the stand in Switzerland, accused of stealing Chaplin’s body.

Andrew Hyslop; Covenanter, Martyr.

May 29, 2021May 28, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

One postcard lead to a story of a murdered covenanter who ended his days in a field in Dumfriesshire

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