Richardson had several guided tours that he alternated
throughout the week. His favourite was a trip around the Old
City, visiting several of the locations where over the years,
apparitions had, allegedly, been seen. He would then lead his
group into the tunnels and the catacombs beneath street level-
into the so-called Undercity, a labyrinthine warren of vaulted,
coarse-brick, underground chambers that dated back hundreds
of years. In this dark subterranean environment, the poor had
lived a squalid, cramped and disease-ridden existence, shut off
from the world above. There were countless tales of bloodcurdling
horror attached to this place, ones that he would relate and
embellish with his own sense of macabre flair... But was it all
fiction...?