Strange but true… 10 quirky facts from Nasty Norfolk: Scary Stories and Ghastly Ghosts.
1 Ever heard of Queen Martha of England? She was an 18th-century eccentric from Great Yarmouth who tried to persuade everyone – yes, even the Prime Minister - that was the REAL ruler of the country…
2 The author of the James Bond books tried to find treasure in a ruined Norfolk abbey…
3 There’s a stinky reason behind the tales of secret tunnels from Norfolk’s abbeys and churches… medieval drains. 
4 The Rev John Beevor was such a greedy-guts that he married his cook because she’d threatened not to make his dinner if he didn’t!
5 In the Middle Ages a husband and wife promised they’d walk naked to Thetford if their dead daughter could be brought back to life. She was – so they did!
6 Here’s the recipe for two 18th-century Norfolk drinks to make you feel better: snake soup and worms in milk. Yum, yum…
7 In 1936 there were reports of a strange visitor to Norfolk’s shores – a nine-metre long sea serpent!
8 Norfolk people used to kill cute little wrens on Boxing Day because they thought were witches in disguise…
9 Some countryside people from a couple of hundred years ago ate such rotten food that they preferred their cheese with a wriggly extra bit… maggots!
10 In 1860 a clown performing the Great Yarmouth panto had just said the lines ‘got touched upon the sleeve by Death himself...’ – when he fell down dead!