Manchester is a strange city.

Throughout its long history there have been countless tales of the weird and the wonderful within its boundaries.

Strange Manchester features a selection of ghost stories from across the whole of Greater Manchester. There phantom nightclub owners, cursed skulls, and a ghost that somehow found itself in Manchester despite having died in Chester. There's also a haunted police station and tales of ghost trains and buses too. There's even a mummy!

The book also covers a few of the regions mysterious UFO encounters including a look into the Manchester Airport Near Miss, which saw a passenger airliner come within meters of a UFO, as well as an alleged alien abduction that happened in 1979 in Stockport on the banks of the River Mersey.

In addition the the tales of the weird, the book is also packed full of historical factoids, meaning it also serves as something of a potted history of Greater Manchester.

With stories from Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Bury, Cheadle, Oldham, Leigh, Bolton, as well as Wigan there is something for everyone.

Strange Manchester includes the following tales:

• 16 Wardle Brook Avenue
• Alien Abduction on the Mersey
• The Ghost of Strangeways
• The Mystery "Factory" of Knott Hill Reservoir
• The Manchester Airport UFO Near Miss
• The Ghosts of Manchester Airport
• The Ghost Train of Fairfield Station
• The Ghost of the Octagon Theatre
• The Haunted Halliwell Lodge
• The Spacemen of Bolton
• The Ghost of Minnie Stott
• The Phantoms of McPherson's Paintworks
• The Malt Shovels Pub
• The Floating Eyes of Platt Lane
• The Cursed Skull of Wardley Hall
• The Burning Ghost of the Shakespeare Hotel
• The Ghost of "Man Mountain" Bill Benny
• The Haunted Pub
• A Heist Four Years in the Making
• The Beast of Bolton
• The Tragic Ghost of Manchester's Palace Theatre
• Cheadle's Barnes Hospital
• The Mummy of Manchester
• Mayfield Station
• The Ghost of Golborne
• Bootle Street's Spooky Police Station
• The Mysterious Figure of Fir Tree Flash
• The Farnsworth Pleasuredome
• Father Arrowsmith's Holy Hand of Glory

It also features a couple of bonus tales from my other books, Strange Nottingham and Strange Sheffield.