Wharram Percy, in the Yorkshire Wolds, is the most famous deserted medieval village in England.

For forty years, archaeologists studied the life and death of the village, and in the process, uncovered a sinister secret…

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📚 History of English Affairs, by William of Newburgh

💻 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X1630791X

💻 https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/wharram-percy-deserted-medieval-village/history/

💻 https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/archaeological-evidence-living-dead-in-mediaeval-england

💻 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/03/medieval-villagers-mutilated-the-dead-to-stop-them-rising-study-finds

💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-39477005

💻 https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tourism/yorkshires-wharram-percy-ghost-village-21575223

💻 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1011377?section=official-list-entry

💻 https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/wharram-percy-deserted-medieval-village/history/research/

💻 https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2017/04/living-dead.page

💻 https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/pr-wp-6

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se9oaqa7idw

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutHmixz1W0

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