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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
