The glorious ghost mobs of London
There was a rumour, a whispered “haven’t you heard” between two friends in the pub. “Could it really be true”, someone asked. The answer was often “let’s go see for ourselves”.
There was a ghost craze in Victorian England. Large crowds flocked to places where there had been a death, a tragedy or a rumoured haunting.
In August 1868 two thousand people rush…
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