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Clubfoot
Clubfoot is the nickname given to an alleged ghost at former RAF Binbrook. He is said to be an Australian serviceman who fatally injured himself while trying to sabotage a Lancaster bomber, possibly in revenge for being injured by a careless pilot…
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Gainsthorpe: abandoned, or sacked?
Lincolnshire is full of deserted medieval village sites, one of the best preserved of which is Gainsthorpe. As Jim Snee notes in this beautiful blog post, which contains fact as well as fable, ‘According to legend, Gain[e]sthorpe was not just a village
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Daniel Lambert
Daniel Lambert was born in Leicester in 1770, and surely remains the most famous obese man in English history. He suffered from an undiagnosed ailment that brought on immense weight gain, had to give up work, became a recluse, and then took to exhibiting himself to earn money…
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Harlaxton Manor Ghosts
In the mid-twentieth century Harlaxton Manor – built to rival Belvoir Castle – was in the care of Jesuits, who reported many supernatural events, resulting in a well-publicised exorcism. Perhaps the most unnerving ghost story at Harlaxton concerns the alleged ghost of a woman with a baby…
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Grantham Railway Disaster
In 1906, the night-mail to Edinburgh steamed at full speed through Grantham station, where it had been expected to stop, and derailed at a bend and junction a few hundred yards farther north, killing everyone on board.
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The Witches of Belvoir
Lincolnshire’s most famous example of a witch trial, and one of the most widely discussed and embellished in the early seventeenth century. The ‘witches’ were Joan Flower and her daughters, Margaret and Philippa, servants to the Earl and Countess of Rutland. They were accused of killing two young brothers, Henry and Francis Manners, who were…
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