Days of Horror

Over four centuries have passed since the fateful summer of 1612 – when ten people from the Pendle region were condemned as witches and led from the cells of Lancaster Castle to the gallows. In this haunting journey, we retrace those final, tragic steps… from the cold, stone dungeons where they awaited their fate, to…

In the year 1612, fear walked the hills. A fear so strong it tore families apart, turned friend against friend… and left twelve souls accused of the unthinkable — witchcraft. In a world ruled by superstition and suspicion, it took only a word, a rumour, or a whispered curse… to seal a person’s fate. The…

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…