Episode 1 - Old Sal

Welcome to the first episode of No Heathen Land, thank you so much for listening.

This episode Sally shares a terrifying 1970s story of demonic possession and guest, Ross, tells a spooky tale set on the atmospheric Woodhouse Ridge in Leeds

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Episode 1 References and Links

Sally:

The True Crime Enthusiast Blog and Podcast

Last Podcast on the Left Episode 338: Murderous Possession - The Story of Michael Taylor

The Quantum Mind

Ross:

@rosshorsefly on Twitter and Instagram

The newspaper article referenced appeared in the Leeds Mercury on 1st December, 1761.

You can find old newspapers at your closest Local History Library or online (subscriptions apply) at the British Newspaper Archive on Ancestry or Find My Past Most Library services will offer online access to newspaper archives like this one from Leeds Libraries.

Many more mysterious news clippings, local and otherwise, are collected in the 1930s scrapbook 'Ghost Stories and Weird Experiences; Life After Death, etc', held at Leeds Central Library.

For more true Yorkshire ghost stories, written in a literary style, you can do no better than:

The Hand of Glory and Further Grandfather's Tales and Legends of Highwaymen and Others (1924) edited by J. Fairfax-Blakeborough. 

And:

Lord Halifax's Ghost Book: A Collection of Stories of Haunted Houses, Apparitions and Supernatural Occurrences (1936) by Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax. 

Editing by Luke Smith

Artwork: @iony_tommi on Instagram

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