Cospatrick Memorial: Disaster and cannibalism on the high seas
14 October 2024
Church Green, Shipton-under-Wychwood
On the village green at Shipton-under-Wychwood stands a memorial to a maritime disaster that claimed the lives of nearly 500 people, including 17 Shipton residents, over 6000 miles away in 1874.
Stolen Skulls at Shipton-Under-Wychwood
1 February 2022
St Mary the Virgin church, Shipton under Wychwood
A humorous local story from 1894 features drunken dares, practical jokes and stolen human remains!
Exorcisms and suspicious deaths at Shipton Court
26 February 2021
Shipton Court, Shipton-under-Wychwood
This picturesque Elizabethan manor house conceals a dark history of hauntings, exorcisms and mysterious deaths.