ePrivacy and GPDR Cookie Consent by Cookie Consent
Skip to content

Explore - Murder & Mayhem

Tom Quad at Christ Church

Bullingdon Club in 'Orgy of Destruction' at Christ Church

31 May 2021

Christ Church College, St Aldates, Oxford

After a drunken dinner party, members of the exclusive Bullingdon Club smashed all 468 windows in the main quad at Christ Church College.

Read more

Sandford Lasher

Sandford Lasher: Oxfordshire's Most Deadly Water?

26 May 2021

Sandford Lock, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxford

The weir known as Sandford Lasher has a terrible reputation for taking the lives of unwary swimmers, including the boy who inspired 'Peter Pan'.

Read more

Highwayman

Highwaymen of Shotover

25 May 2021

Old Road, Shotover Country Park

The old road through Shotover Forest was in the past notorious as a haunt of highwaymen looking to steal from unwary travellers.

Read more

Wolvercote Map

Duck Prank Leads to Murder at Wolvercote

24 May 2021

Wolvercote, Oxford

When accused of stealing a duck Thomas Beesley denied it, but 'He was proved a liar by the loud quacking coming from his coat pocket'!

Read more

George Cruikshank's engraving of The Gin Shop (1829)

Death by Gin at Brize Norton

18 May 2021

Brize Norton, West Oxfordshire

In 1858 five people became sick and two died after drinking from the same bottle of gin. Was a poisoner at large in Brize Norton?

Read more

Mapledurham House

Ghosts of Mapledurham House

8 May 2021

Mapledurham House, Mapledurham, Reading

The ghost of a former owner can reportedly be seen pulling across the floor the body of a servant who he murdered in a fit of anger.

Read more

St Michael's Church, Stanton Harcourt

Adultery, Murder and Hauntings at Stanton Harcourt

3 May 2021

Main Road, Stanton Harcourt

The Lady Pool at Stanton Harcourt is believed to house two restless spirits, both of whom met their deaths in connection to adultery.

Read more

Wolf

Escaped Wolves on the Loose at Kidlington

28 April 2021

Oxford Road, Kidlington

In 1936 three Russian wolves escaped from the Oxford Zoo at Kidlington and terrorised livestock for three days before being shot.

Read more