Eerie but True

Strange History, Uncomfortable Facts and Things Nobody Has Properly Explained

The Eerie but True series ventures into the shadowy corners of history where documented fact meets stubborn mystery. Drawing upon newspaper archives, historical records, eyewitness testimony, local accounts and official reports, each book investigates strange incidents that genuinely happened—or were genuinely reported—even when the truth behind them remains frustratingly out of reach.

From haunted houses with awkward histories and phantom travellers seen beside lonely roads to restless corpses, cursed possessions, ghost ships, unexplained disappearances and animals behaving in a distinctly unprofessional manner, these books uncover the unsettling stories that respectable history tends to leave in the cellar.

Written with atmospheric storytelling, careful research and dry British humour, the series neither demands belief nor dismisses every witness as someone who mistook a coat stand for the supernatural. Possible explanations are examined, doubtful embellishments are identified and the facts are separated from the folklore wherever the evidence permits. Where it does not, the mystery is allowed to remain—usually with the lights on.

Eerie, witty and frequently stranger than fiction, Eerie but True is for readers who enjoy unusual history, British folklore, unexplained phenomena and true tales that become considerably less comforting after dark.