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Evening Standard
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Sian Baldwin and William Mata

What is dark tourism and why are we drawn to morbid death sites?

From Chernobyl to ground zero of the 9/11 terror attack in New York City, tourists have long flocked to places where some of the darkest events of human history have unfolded.

Lancashire is one such lure, with interest in the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612, which saw 10 people hanged after being imprisoned at Lancaster Castle.

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