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Radio Shropshire,31 Oct 2025,13 mins

The ghost of Copper Hole

Secret Shropshire

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Richard Tisdale unravels the mystery of the Church Stretton ghost story that made global headlines. In1874 the glowing white spectre of a woman who’d vanished off the face of the earth caused mass hysteria in the south Shropshire town. It’s a ghost story that has reverberated through the centuries and one that will never be laid to rest.

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