After murdering the couple and taking their money the miners hid the bodies in a mine shaft where they were discovered ten years later, they did not get away with their crime without punishment, and all were said to have suffered tragic fates.
One is said to have fallen from a cliff near the place of the murder and another was hit by a falling stone there, one committed suicide, one went mad, and the last was so guilt-ridden that he confessed it all and the names of his accomplices on his deathbed twenty years later.
It is rumored he used his share of the stolen money to buy horses, which suffered from ill health so turned out to be bad investments leaving him in poverty over his final days.
Today Alan and Clara are buried in , the red leather saddle on display in the Speedwell Cavern Museum is said to have belonged to her. Some say that their ghosts haunt the Winnats Pass still .. or is it just the wind? .
After murdering the couple and taking their money the miners hid the bodies in a mine shaft where they were discovered ten years later, they did not get away with their crime without punishment, and all were said to have suffered tragic fates.
* [Winnats Pass Peak District - Dji Air2 Drone Footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18_hikjltH4).
* [Allan & Clara, the Horrible Story of Two Lovers' Revenge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oGvCd-_fi0).
* [Stoney Middleton Heritage - The Murder of Allen & Clara](http://smhccg.org/folklore-legends/the-murder-of-allen-and-clara/).
One is said to have fallen from a cliff near the place of the murder and another was hit by a falling stone there, one committed suicide, one went mad, and the last was so guilt-ridden that he confessed it all and the names of his accomplices on his deathbed twenty years later.
It is rumored he used his share of the stolen money to buy horses, which suffered from ill health so turned out to be bad investments leaving him in poverty over his final days.
Today Alan and Clara are buried in [St Edmund’s Church, Castleton](https://i.postimg.cc/1Xkwdv0q/SCC.jpg), the red leather saddle on display in the Speedwell Cavern Museum is said to have belonged to her. Some say that their ghosts haunt the Winnats Pass still .. or is it just the wind? [NationalTrust.uk](https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/kinder-edale-and-the-dark-peak/features/creepy-caverns-and-haunted-hills-the-ghost-story-of-winnats-pass).
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