Days of Horror

In 1974, a small town in Yorkshire became the scene of one of the most disturbing cases in modern British history – the so-called exorcism of Michael Taylor. What began as a desperate attempt to save a man believed to be tormented by dark forces soon spiralled into a night of unimaginable horror. By dawn,…

On the night of June 24th, 1943, a small Lancashire town became the stage for one of the most shocking clashes of World War Two – not between allies and enemies, but between American soldiers themselves. In Bamber Bridge, simmering racial tensions, fuelled by Jim Crow segregation and heightened by the chaos of war, exploded…

In 1832, Manchester was consumed by fear as cholera tore through its overcrowded streets, claiming hundreds of lives in just weeks. Distrust of the authorities festered, with whispers spreading that doctors were exploiting the epidemic to secure bodies for dissection. When a three-year-old boy, John Brogan, was taken to a cholera hospital only to die…