The World's Most Mysterious CastlesDundurn, 16. okt. 2005 - 304 sider 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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... took the place of a gas chamber. Its floor opened, and the individuals plunged to the floor below, into a room from which there was no escape; their cries unheeded, they were left to starve to death. Small wonder, then, that the ghosts ...
... took the concept of hill-forts and defensive earthworks not only along natural watercourses in the Americas but from one point of the globe to its antipodes remains a controversial one that involves theories ranging from Atlantis and ...
... took advantage of the same principle . Harry Orford Mansfield , the great Norfolk teacher , writer , and historian , who was a close friend of the authors ' in the 1960s , commented sagely : " The round towers of Norfolk and Suffolk are ...
... took a personal interest in the case and interrogated wit- nesses himself . Not surprisingly , Buckingham was found guilty and duly executed on May 17 , 1521. The fortifications at Thornbury were never completed : Henry took it over as ...
... took over at Rennes, which was then known as Rhédae, and it became the capital of the mysterious old Kingdom of Septimania. Saracens invaded the region early in the eighth century, but by the end of that tumultuous period, the church of ...