North Staffordshire has a history unlike any other place in the United Kingdom. This area known as Stoke on Trent is situated in the centre of the country and in the very centre of the canal network, which has helped to both import and export tales and variations of these tales both in and out of the six towns of Stoke on Trent and to the surrounding areas, adding twists and character to what were already interesting tales. The book features some very strange and some very true tales of the area including Molly Leigh who was a very real witch who lived in Burslem, the mermaid of Blackmere, the chained oak of Alton Towers and the headless corpse of Harecastle tunnel. There is even an haunted radish that terrified a woman in Leek!