Spooky Tales For Halloween - Historical presentation by David Glover
The Workshop, Halifax, HX1 5SU
Sunday 1st November 2026 2:30PM
Local Halifax Historian, David Glover, returns to The Workshop for an evening of Spooky local tales.
David tells the story of how a curse on a Halifax pedlar helped convict a "Pendle Witch" in 1612; the 18th Century tale of Mrs Haigh of Shaw Hill, almost buried alive in Halifax Parish Church around 1770; and the apparent contemporary cases of human combustion involving sisters less than a mile apart, near Sowerby Bridge in 1899. David will also describe two non-local ancestral curses - The Headless Horseman of Chavenage, and the Monk's Curse of Cowdray.
David tells the story of how a curse on a Halifax pedlar helped convict a "Pendle Witch" in 1612; the 18th Century tale of Mrs Haigh of Shaw Hill, almost buried alive in Halifax Parish Church around 1770; and the apparent contemporary cases of human combustion involving sisters less than a mile apart, near Sowerby Bridge in 1899. David will also describe two non-local ancestral curses - The Headless Horseman of Chavenage, and the Monk's Curse of Cowdray.
Event Details
Doors Open at 2:00PM
Starts at 2:30PM
