Spooky Tales For Halloween - Historical presentation by David Glover
The Workshop, Halifax, HX1 5SU
Sunday 1st November 2026
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.
Price
Ticket price incl. booking fee
£7.55
