We don't know much about the War of the Roses - aside from it being used every time Lancashire play Yorkshire at cricket - but really, we should.
It's a pretty pivotal period in English history and provoked the growth of mercantilism which eventually begat the Empire, which funded the Industrial Revolution, which made us all city dwellers...obviously I could go on.
We know even less about the Battle of Towton, despite it being debatably the bloodiest battle in British history, and, according to some ghost hunters, one of the most haunted places in the UK.
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Oh, and the ghost hunter in question has photographic evidence.
Neil Cook, a Yorkshire-based psychic, was out ghost hunting with two fellow enthusiasts close to the village of Towton when he captured the image of a 'soldier on horseback'.
"All night long we had had the feeling that we were being followed. We kept hearing a thud like the sound of a hoof stamping in the ground," said Neil.
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"It was as if someone on horseback was following us all around. That's what it sounded like."
I mean, following you around is one thing, but photobombing the back of you and your mates' selfie is quite another.
Neil added: "Looking at the picture, a lot of people have said it looks like two soldiers but I do believe in pareidolia where we make faces out of things.
"I believe it is a gentleman on horseback. The dark mass is the shoulders and head of the horse that is slightly turned and the figure stood with the horse or sat on it.
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"That's how I look at it. But we never like to say 'this is what we see', we just ask people what they see."
I mean, it looks like a field to me, but I'm not a ghost hunter so.
Neil's mate Shane corroborated his story, however.
"Both Shane [Corbett] and I saw a shape moving across the field at some speed and we both said it looked like a flag waving in the wind with some kind of large dark shadow with it," said Neil.
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"It looked like someone galloping across the field holding a mast with a flag on it. And Shane agreed, we both saw it.
"It could well have been a flock of birds or puff of smoke or something in the distance but it was so close and strong to be that really.
"There was no explanation so we put it down to paranormal."
The trio - their third pal, Andrew Alexander, was with them too - met on the anniversary of the Battle of Towton, 29 March, with the intention of communing with some of the 28,000 dead of that day.
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"It was dark when we took the picture and the little light we had only lit up our faces so the backdrop behind us was very dark," explained Neil.
"It was only when we came home that I was looking at the picture and noticed the dark shape in the top corner.
"So I lightened the picture and I could see the shape of two figures there, but then as it became more clear I realised it looked like a person sat on horseback.
"I could say that it is the person on horseback who followed us around all night long and these are the hooves we could hear.
"It could be one of the nobleman riding around the battlefield killing the injured people."
"We generally believe that the more trauma that happens at a place, the more likely for us to connect to the residual energy.
"And since it was the birthday of the Battle, the 29th March, the three of us decided to head down there.
"I didn't do any reading about where we were going because as a psychic medium I don't like to know anything about where I am going as it can influence my thought.
"I like to go in 'blind' to these locations as otherwise if a name pops into my head I don't know if it's a spirit telling me or from what I have read.
"It was a very eerie place. Even a non-sensitive person would feel a sensation of dread and trauma there.
"Andrew and Shane both said they felt upset there. You have to remember that 28,000 people died there in one day - it's the bloodiest battle of all time.
"As a psychic medium I had connections to the place beforehand and I had the impression of a gentleman who had drowned there. He was dressed like a soldier.
"Near the battlefield is a stream where I believe there was once a bridge when the battle happened.
"History records that when they retreated they ran across the bridge but it collapsed and many drowned. It became known as the 'bridge of bodies' because so many died there.
"I think this is where the gentleman who connected with me died. He actually drowned while retreating from the battle.
"It was a slaughter ground in which the Yorkshiremen butchered the Lancashiremen trying to retreat. They were butchered.
"Anyone injured by the long bows would have been hacked up, having their limbs chopped off and so on to finish them off.
"All this trauma and all this energy [was there]. It was one of the most sensitive things I have ever done.
"I was physically affected by it because I had observed all of this energy and trauma and it took me some days or maybe a week to get back to normal."
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