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Lady Lovibond
Ghost ship said to be sailing in British waters
Sunbeam Tiger
High-performance V8 version of the Sunbeam Alpine
Metrovick 950
Early British transistorised computer, built in 1956
Witch's Broomstick
Broomsticks smeared with flying ointment were believed to give witches the power of flight
The Enigma of Hitler
Painting by Salvador Dalí, created in 1939
Checker Shadow Illusion
Squares A and B are actually the same colour
There Was a Crooked Man
English nursery rhyme, first printed in 1842
Supermarionation
Style of puppetry electronically synchronising lip movements with pre-recorded dialogue
Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery
Disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in 1900
The Mezzotint
Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904
Tam o'Shanter
Poem by Robert Burns, describing Tam's encounter with a coven of witches
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
Most famous ghost photograph ever taken
Annie Kenney
Working-class suffragette and poster girl for the movement
Joan Wytte
Skeleton claimed to be that of a Cornish witch
Lilias Addie
Reconstructed face of an alleged Scottish witch exhumed in 1852
Ordsall Hall
15th-century manor in which the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 may have been hatched
Cottingley Fairies
Five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986)
Worsley Man
Head of a sacrificed Romano-British Celt, discovered in 1958
Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak
The 1964 outbreak was the largest in Britain since 1937
RHS Garden Bridgewater
Royal Horticultural Society’s first new garden since 2003
Mandrake
Plant the cries of which when pulled from the ground can be fatal
Baby Asleep
Painting by Madge Young Mitchell (1892–1974)
Bagpuss
Children's television series about a saggy old cat
Merkin
Pubic wig designed to hide syphilitic pustules