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

Strange Manchester gathers reported hauntings, UFO encounters, big cat sightings and other uncanny accounts from across Greater Manchester. Its ghost stories include Strangeways, Manchester Airport, Fairfield Station, Wardley Hall, the Octagon Theatre and Manchester’s Palace Theatre, alongside tales of ghost trains, buses, a cursed skull and the city’s mummy.

The UFO material includes the Manchester Airport Near Miss and an alleged 1979 abduction in Stockport, while animal reports add sightings of the Beast of Bolton. Stories range across Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Bury, Cheadle, Oldham, Leigh, Bolton and Wigan, with historical factoids providing context and bonus material drawn from Finney’s Strange Nottingham and Strange Sheffield.