In 1966, Harry Ludlam published an account of the Hannah Beswick story that combined ghost story with some research into the woman’s life and family. Although this story replicated some details from older versions, specifically in terms of the woman’s desire to be left unburied and the supernatural phenomena that followed her death, it was notable for its inclusion of careful genealogy and details of local geography. Nevertheless, as the Hannah Beswick story began to circulate on the internet towards the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, this care and detail was obscured by confused and inaccurate variations. This chapter explores some of the more recent iterations of the narrative, arguing that the story of the Manchester Mummy remains a ‘curiosity’ to be understood through fanciful and sensationalized story rather than serious academic scrutiny. The chapter goes on to explore some of the ways in which a type of civic amnesia (the forgetting or obscuring of aspects of Manchester’s past, such as the response to the Jacobite rebellion of 1745) has created a space in which the more fanciful narratives can circulate without any challenge. The first part of the book concludes that almost all the versions of the story explored so far should be treated with a degree of suspicion or cynicism.