William MacKenzie's Tomb — Attraction in Liverpool

The story, often told as a sworn truth, goes that McKenzie was a keen gambler and left instructions that he should be entombed above ground within the pyramid, sitting upright at a card table and clutching a winning hand of cards . Some tellers go one step further asserting that MacKenzie ensured that his body was never committed to the earth as a means of cheating Satan out of claiming his immortal soul . It follows almost naturally that tales of MacKenzie’s ghost roaming the overgrown churchyard and surrounding area are told today by many local folklorists and tour...

Tom Slemen's fabulous Haunted Liverpool books brought me to see this highly unusual pyramidal tomb, and talking to residents in the area, I hear that this part of Rodney Street is exceedingly haunted. A top-hatted man in Victorian clothes has been seen entering and leaving the pyramid since the 1960s at least and the place does have an atmosphere. Well...

Truth or fiction, you decide. But be quick because the church has been renovated into accommodation, and soon this grave yard will be a carpark. The tomb will remain I'm told. I was lucky enough that one of the workmen let me...