SCARY STORIES FROM SCUNTHORPE

ROB GANDY continues his exploration of Lincolnshire weirdness, heading to the north of the county and the steel town of Scunthorpe, where he finds that this centre of modern industry is a surprising hotspot for anomalous activity, well supplied with strange spectral presences, hospital apparitions and phantom jaywalkers…

STRANGE FENOMENA A LINCOLNSHIRE CASEBOOK #5 SCARY STORIES FROM SCUNTHORPE ROB GANDY continues his exploration of Lincolnshire weirdness, heading to the north of the county and the steel town of Scunthorpe, where he finds that this centre of modern industry is a surprising hotspot for anomalous activity, well supplied with strange spectral presences, hospital apparitions and phantom jaywalkers… When calling for witness testimonies concerning ‘The Ruskington Horror’1 (see FT401:32-38, 402:38-43), I was surprised to receive a story from Scunthorpe, which is an industrial town 45 miles (72km) away from Ruskington, in the north of the old county of Lincolnshire. But what a story it was! Such is the serendipitous nature of fortean research that I found myself chasing spectres amongst the famous steelworks (the local football team is not nicknamed The…

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