Halloween: A Dreadful Apparition or Ghost

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As it’s Halloween, we present two suitably scary archives from our collection; a full, particular and authentic account of the dreadful ghost which haunted the neighbourhood of Stretford and an account of a strange and marvellous funeral, seen between Dunblane and Stirling that suddenly vanished.

First up, we have a report of how Stretford was ‘eventually thrown into much alarm and confusion’ during 1806.

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  1. Pingback: When Things Go Bump In The Night…. « The Accidental Kansan

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