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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... tunnels . Tragically , many of them served savage and sinister purposes . Prisoners were thrown down into them to lie dying in the rat - infested darkness with limbs broken and internal organs fatally damaged by the fall . Thumbscrews ...
... tunnel cut through a wall three metres thick . Witnesses report that he cries out and moans pitifully with what they say sounds like a mixture of pain and terror . Another feature reported in connection with this haunting is the ...
... tunnel connecting an inn called the Trip to Jerusalem to the interior of Nottingham Castle. Mortimer and Isabella were in bed when Edward III's men arrived. Isabella is alleged to have screamed, “Dear son, have pity on the gentle ...
... tunnel or passageway that led to a hole in the floor through which they fell into the oubliette, never to emerge. A number of British castles had bottle-shaped oubliettes that made escape impossible. The authors examined one in the ...
... tunnel, which ends at a small, subterranean room from which there is no other exit, while the other descends to a much shorter passage that ends in a round chamber. The most interesting mystery of the Hastings Castle cave is the ...