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The Stocksbridge Monk
Nick “Maso” Mason of The Weekly Planet and Mr Sunday Movies drops in from Melbourne for a chilling tale of ghosts, ghouls and… town planning.
From “God’s own country” (Australia) to “God’s own county” (Yorkshire), we visit the haunted building site that was to become the infamous Stocksbridge bypass. Since the 1980s, this stretch of road has been associated with a ghostly hooded monk. Has he got a head? Has he got a face? Has he got a sk8er boi wallet on a chain? It’s really not clear. And, as if that weren’t spooky enough, we’ve got ghost children dancing around a maypole.
If you’ve got ’em, put ’em on. We’re talking about gilets, because your spine is going to be tingled!
Credits:
The Loremen are Alasdair Beckett-King & James Shakeshaft with deputy loreperson Nick Mason.
Featured image from Costumes Anciens et Modernes, Cesare Vecellio, 1859.
Music from La Lettre De Manon Valse played by Megone’s Orchestra, 1905.