Perhaps the biggest mystery about the latest web collection of bizarre stories and anecdotes from Croydon is what the site is actually called. It may have WeirdCroydon.com on the home page but it is actually found at http://www.strangeplace.org/croydon/index.html .
The webmaster, Outlando, who has lived in Croydon for 23 years, confesses that he's drawn heavily on other websites for much of his information, including Strange Croydon(see review), the Fortean Times and our own site!
Still, Weird Croydon does not suffer for it and instead is a handy collection of anecdotes, pictures and articles on Croydon's curiosities from the not-so-weird (horse-drawn trams and the 16th Century archbishop of Canterbury who lent his name to the Whitgift Centre) to the downright strange - three nuns haunting the Roundshaw estate and the Thornton Heath poltergeist.
The site is very clean and simple to look at, built in frames on a white background it is very clearly put together. I particularly liked the images page, although I was a little disappointed not to find any ghosts captured on film.
Still for anyone who wants to hear about the nuns, ghostly motorcyclists, a rain of frogs and the Grey Lady of the Selsdon Park Hotel, the site is well worth checking out.
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