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Guest blog: The Mystery of the Sailor in the River

Posted on 26 October 2017 by admin

A guest blog for Wivenhoe’s History about a sailor who drowned in the River Colne in 1850. But all was not as it seemed.

(A shorter version of this text was published in Fortean Times a couple of years ago).

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