The World's Most Mysterious CastlesDundurn, 16.10.2005 - 304 sivua Castles are among the most mysterious buildings on earth. Their grimly silent stones are signposts to a past filled with high adventure, grim tragedies, and glorious victories. Ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal phenomena are frequently reported from castles. Do strange paranormal powers lurk among their ancient ruins? The World's Most Mysterious Castles takes you on a journey through hidden chambers and subterranean tunnels of castles all over the world. Their walls served the sinister needs of spies, traitors, and assassins. Do the spirits of attackers and defenders who died in long-forgotten sieges still linger where they fell? Screams of unbearable pain and despair were muffled within their deepest, darkest torture dungeons. Do they echo there still? |
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... death. Small wonder, then, that the ghosts of tormented souls are said to roam forever within the walls that so abused them. Their suffering outlasted even the great walls that slowly crumbled round their bones. Caerphilly Castle saw ...
... five years after her supposed death in the flames at Rouen. The elusive Camelot of King Arthur and his knights might well have been Tintagel in Cornwall, England, and the symbolic stories told of his heroes could have been INTRODUCTION.
... death and his own succession. He was also accused of trying to fulfil them by assassinating Henry, who took a personal interest in the case and interrogated witnesses himself. Not surprisingly, Buckingham was found guilty and duly ...
... death until the victim had confessed to whatever the interrogators wanted to hear — and had implicated family, friends, and neighbours in wild, unfounded accusations of witchcraft, heresy, or treason. Various forms of bridles were used ...
... death. Lionel and the crew felt that there was a very sad, negative atmosphere in the castle. It required only a small stretch of the imagination to conclude that a combination of medieval suffering and twentieth-century suffering had ...