'Stories like this tend to have a life of their own'
From privateers to monkey murderers, kleptomaniacs to automatons and giant bugs to fart lamps - it's time to gather round the fire once again for more tales of North East madness.
In this second installment of Tyne and Weird, Rob Kilburn embraces the odd and ventures further than ever into the strange world of Tyne and Wear.
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