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WHO DOESN’T LOVE A HAIR-RAISING TALE AROUND HALLOWEEN? BRISTOL HAS SCARY STORIES AND CREEPY FACTS APLENTY.

Did you know that the Bristol was once home to one of history’s most notorious female serial killers, or has gruesome items including an old cremation machine and a book bound in human skin on display within M-Shed.

Here are some creepy facts about Bristol that will send shivers down your spine.

Amelia Dyer, dubbed one of the UK’s most prolific female serial killers in recorded history, was born in Bristol. She murdered hundreds of infants in her care over a 30-year-period during the 1800s. Dyer originally trained as a nurse before turning to baby farming - the practice of adopting unwanted infants in exchange for money - after she was widowed in order to support herself. Dyer initially cared for the children, and had two of her own, but a number of them went on to die in her care. She then began murdering children she ‘adopted’, strangling at least some of them before disposing of the bodies. She was discovered in 1896 when a bagged infant corpse was discovered in the River Thames, before being found guilty of murder and executed at Newgate Prison in 1896.

SOME BRISTOLIANS HAVE BEEN PLAGUED BY AN UNEXPLAINABLE ‘HUM’ SINCE THE 1970S - AND NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IT IS ONE OF THE CITY’S PUB DOORS IS ALSO THOUGHT TO BE MADE OUT OF HUMAN SKIN

Some people in Bristol say they are plagued by a strange low-level hum, but nobody has ever been able to explain what it is. The mysterious sound first surfaced in the 1970s, when hundreds of the city’s residents complained to the Council that the ‘hum’ was keeping them up at night. There are a number of theories about what it could be - most experts have put the sound down to factory noise, electricity pylons or tinnitus. But some creepier suggestions include secret military activity or flying saucers hovering over the city. Some residents still claim to hear ‘the Bristol hum’ to this day. The huge door of the Hatchet Inn in Frogmore Street is rumoured to be made from layers of human skin from executed criminals, although this has never been proven with the thick paint and tar layers never removed to find out. Thanks to a cheery ‘welcome all’ sign painted above the door, you’d never know. The Hatchet Inn is Bristol’s oldest pub, first licenced in 1606. The notorious Bristol pirate Blackbeard is rumoured to have once been a patron. Bristol boasts countless ‘haunted’ buildings and streets Bristol has a rich and at points dark history, so it’s no surprise that the city is thought to be frequented by all manner of ghosties and ghoulies - if you believe in that sort of thing. Here’s a list of the buildings and areas claimed to be the most haunted:

• Bristol Fire Station, Temple Back • Christmas Steps • Llandoger Trow • All Saints Church • The Highbury Vaults So go enjoy Bristol’s ghostly and dam right creepy history.