Mysterious Cambridgeshire

Author: Daniel Codd

Mysterious Cambridgeshire

Mysterious Cambridgeshire is the next volume in the ‘Mysterious Counties’ series, joining best-selling titles
Mysterious Cornwall and Mysterious Lincolnshire. Exhaustively researched by the author and fully illustrated
throughout, this book is designed to show the reader a Cambridgeshire they never knew existed – a county full of
supernatural secrets and strange lore. Covering a county with four distinct regions – Cambridge, Huntingdon,
Fenland and the Soke of Peterborough – the author has unearthed hundreds of strange tales that capture the
imagination and chill the blood. Read about the legends of Robin Hood and the ghoulish history of Caxton Gibbet,
and the many myths and legends associated with Oliver Cromwell: was he really kidnapped by a monkey in
Huntingdon as a baby? Learn of the strange and sinister creatures that were believed to lurk in the county – Black
Shuck, the Shug Monkey, and freshwater mermaids among them. Find out where Satan himself has appeared on
gloomy wind-lashed nights, and also where marvelous miracles have occurred that have been attributed to the
county's many saints.
This book mixes well-known mysteries with little-known enigmas and first-hand accounts. Did a boy in
Willingham really live an entire lifetime in five years? Could it actually have been a giant spaceship that was
witnessed over the Fens in 1993? And where are the ‘cursed’ places in Cambridgeshire that seem to attract death
and disaster? Within these pages the reader will discover a Cambridgeshire rich in folklore, supernatural and
paranormal phenomena, curiosities and urban legends. From the poltergeists that invade lonely Fenland
farmsteads to the mysterious black panthers said to be roaming the countryside today, Mysterious Cambridgeshire
will change the way you look at the county.