deathonmydoorstep - An interesting, albeit ghoulish site.
"This is a website about the gruesome side of your local history. It’s what I call
“Necro-History”. Every town, village and city has had multiple tales of murder, suicide,
and accidents. I hope to feature and research these from the Victorian and Edwardian era.
"Suicide’s that occur in well-known or religious buildings, murder in a theatre,
ghost stories, tragic mining and train accidents, vicar running off with a barmaid,
concealment of birth by servant’s, lynchings in the U.S.A. along with cannibals in the
South Pacific. These are just some of the stories on the website, along with thousand’s
more. It might look a bit amateurish, wonky and a bit cheap. There’s a good reason. I’ve
got no money and I’m an amateur, with this being my first effort at a website....
"Please remember with this website that the Victorians had a morbid fascination with
death and some of the stories will churn your stomach. (Murder, Suicide, Infanticide,
Cannibalism and Lynchings)...."
Who knows? Maybe one or two of your ancestors are mentioned.
Am not posting the URL since we're still having problems with extended ProofPoint
URLs, but Google will find it.
Lynne