Murder at St. Agatha's: Death comes to Brightwell
6 January 2023
Parish church of St. Agatha, Church Lane, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
The church of St. Agatha at Brightwell-cum-Sotwell was the scene of a grizzly murder in 1507, when the parish priest was stabbed to death at the alter.
A Murder in Woodcote
18 March 2021
Woodcote, Wallingford
On 7 May 1839 the widow Fanny Phillips was found murdered in her bed, her life savings of £300 stolen. And her murderer nearly got away with it!
Ghost of John Thurlow Reade at Ipsden House
26 February 2021
Ipsden House, Ipsden
Despite dying in India in 1857, John Thurlow Reade's ghost is said to have appeared to his mother in Ipsden at the exact time of his death.