Strange Manchester: Ghost Stories, UFO Encounters, Big Cat Sightings, and More from Across Greater Manchester (Strange Britain) (Unabridged‪)‬

Manchester is a strange city.


Throughout its long history there have been countless tales of the weird and the wonderful within its boundaries.


Strange Manchester features a selection of ghost stories from across the whole of Greater Manchester. There phantom nightclub owners, cursed skulls, and a ghost that somehow found itself in Manchester despite having died in Chester. There's also a haunted police station and tales of ghost trains and buses too. There's even a mummy!


The book also covers a few of the regions mysterious UFO encounters including a look into the Manchester Airport Near Miss, which saw a passenger airliner come within meters of a UFO, as well as an alleged alien abduction that happened in 1979 in Stockport on the banks of the River Mersey.


In addition the the tales of the weird, the book is also packed full of historical factoids, meaning it also serves as something of a potted history of Greater Manchester.


With stories from Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Bury, Cheadle, Oldham, Leigh, Bolton, as well as Wigan there is something for everyone.

Strange Manchester includes the following tales:

16 Wardle Brook Avenue
Alien Abduction on the Mersey
The Ghost of Strangeways
The Mystery "Factory" of Knott Hill Reservoir
The Manchester Airport UFO Near Miss
The Ghosts of Manchester Airport
The Ghost Train of Fairfield Station
The Ghost of the Octagon Theatre
The Haunted Halliwell Lodge
The Spacemen of Bolton
The Ghost of Minnie Stott
The Phantoms of McPherson's Paintworks
The Malt Shovels Pub
The Floating Eyes of Platt Lane
The Cursed Skull of Wardley Hall
The Burning Ghost of the Shakespeare Hotel
The Ghost of "Man Mountain" Bill Benny
The Haunted Pub
A Heist Four Years in the Making
The Beast of Bolton
The Tragic Ghost of Manchester's Palace Theatre
Cheadle's Barnes Hospital
The Mummy of Manchester
Mayfield Station
The Ghost of Golborne
Bootle Street's Spooky Police Station
The Mysterious Figure of Fir Tree Flash
The Farnsworth Pleasuredome
Father Arrowsmith's Holy Hand of Glory


It also features a couple of bonus tales from my other books, Strange Nottingham and Strange Sheffield.