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Mandrake
Sunbeam Tiger
Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery
Baby Asleep
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
Annie Kenney
There Was a Crooked Man
Checker Shadow Illusion
RHS Garden Bridgewater
Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak
The Mezzotint
Metrovick 950
Joan Wytte
Lilias Addie
Supermarionation
Ruby Cycle Company
Tam O'Shanter
Overtoun Bridge
Lady Lovibond
Worsley Man
Cottingley Fairies
Ordsall Hall
Witch's Broomstick
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Mandrake
Mandrake

Plant the cries of which when pulled from the ground can be fatal

Mandrake
Sunbeam Tiger
Sunbeam Tiger

High-performance V8 version of the Sunbeam Alpine

Sunbeam Tiger
Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery
Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery

Disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in 1900

Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery
Baby Asleep
Baby Asleep

Painting by Madge Young Mitchell (1892–1974)

Baby Asleep
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

Most famous ghost photograph ever taken

Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
Annie Kenney
Annie Kenney

Working-class suffragette and poster girl for the movement

Annie Kenney
There Was a Crooked Man
There Was a Crooked Man

English nursery rhyme, first printed in 1842

There Was a Crooked Man
Checker Shadow Illusion
Checker Shadow Illusion

Squares A and B are actually the same colour

Checker Shadow Illusion
RHS Garden Bridgewater
RHS Garden Bridgewater

Royal Horticultural Society’s first new garden since 2003

RHS Garden Bridgewater
Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak
Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak

The 1964 outbreak was the largest in Britain since 1937

Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak
The Mezzotint
The Mezzotint

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904

The Mezzotint
Metrovick 950
Metrovick 950

Early British transistorised computer, built in 1956

Metrovick 950
Joan Wytte
Joan Wytte

Skeleton claimed to be that of a Cornish witch

Joan Wytte
Lilias Addie
Lilias Addie

Reconstructed face of an alleged Scottish witch, exhumed in 1852

Lilias Addie
Supermarionation
Supermarionation

Style of puppetry electronically synchronising lip movements with pre-recorded dialogue

Supermarionation
Ruby Cycle Company
Royal Ruby

770 cc twin-cylinder, 1913

Ruby Cycle Company
Tam O'Shanter
Tam o'Shanter

Poem by Robert Burns describing Tam's encounter with a coven of witches

Tam O'Shanter
Overtoun Bridge
Overtoun Bridge

Famous for the number of dogs that have reportedly leapt to their deaths from the bridge

Overtoun Bridge
Lady Lovibond
Lady Lovibond

Ghost ship said to be sailing in British waters

Lady Lovibond
Worsley Man
Worsley Man

Head of a sacrificed Romano-British Celt, discovered in 1958

Worsley Man
Cottingley Fairies
Cottingley Fairies

Five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986)

Cottingley Fairies
Ordsall Hall
Ordsall Hall

15th-century manor house in which the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 may have been planned

Ordsall Hall
Witch's Broomstick
Witch's Broomstick

Broomsticks smeared with flying ointment were believed to give witches the power of flight

Witch's Broomstick
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