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1. Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
On various occasions, visitors have reported a phantom piper, a headless drummer, the spirits of French prisoners from the Seven Years War and colonial prisoners from the American Revolutionary War, even a ghost of a dog wandering in the ground’s dog cemetery.
Volunteers were sent to the castle. Reported experience included sudden drops in temperature, seeing shadowy figures, a feeling of being watched, burning sensation in arm, a feeling of something tugging in clothes. A woman told she heard breathing in the corner of a room, and then she saw a glimpse of light, but didn’t want to look back.
On various occasions, visitors have reported a phantom piper, a headless drummer, the spirits of French prisoners from the Seven Years War and colonial prisoners from the American Revolutionary War, even a ghost of a dog wandering in the ground’s dog cemetery.
Volunteers were sent to the castle. Reported experience included sudden drops in temperature, seeing shadowy figures, a feeling of being watched, burning sensation in arm, a feeling of something tugging in clothes. A woman told she heard breathing in the corner of a room, and then she saw a glimpse of light, but didn’t want to look back.
2. Raynham Hall, U.K.
This mansion was home to the Townsend family. In the 1700s, Charles Townsend lived with his wife Dorothy. He suspected Dorothy of infidelity. He thought marriage will change that.
Charles really got fed up with his tramp of a wife, worrying his reputation would be ruined, so he really just locked her away in a remote corner of the house until her actual death years later (Dorothy was said to be dead in 1726). And so, the tragic Dorothy haunted Raynham Hall, maybe still looking for a way out.
While staying in Raynham in early 1800s, King George IV said he saw a figure of a woman in brown dress, deathly pale and wild mess hair beside his bed. Colonel Loftus claimed to see the same figure in 1835. The figure’s skin glowed with own light and gouged-out eyes. Capt. Frederick Marryat and two friends saw her passed them, stopped, and grinned at them.
Being seen in nearly-always brown dress, Dorothy’s ghost was famously stated as The Brown Lady.
Photo above was taken by Capt. Provand and Indre Shira in September 1936.
3. Petit Trianon, Versailles, France
Two women, Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain went to France and decided to spend a day at Versailles. They went to find the Petit Trianon, asking people around. People pointed to a place and the two women went there. They visit an old fashioned garden. They saw a woman was sitting in a stool, sketching, a footman came rushing out of a building and slammed a door behind him and so the tour went.
When they back to England 3 months later, they talked about their vacation at France. Moberly mentioned the sketching woman to Jourdain, but Jourdain declared that she hadn’t seen such a woman. They wrote separately about the Trianon garden and discussed it. Difference only found about the woman, other details were exactly the same. They found out that the day they had visited the place was the anniversary of the sacking of the Tuileries in 1792 when Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had witnessed the massacre of their Swiss Guards and had been imprisoned in the Hall of Assembly. I’ve read a book telling that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were later beheaded.
Moberly and Jourdain came across a picture of Marie Antoinette drawn by Wertmüller. They were surprised to find out that she is the same sketching woman in Trianon, even the clothes were the same.
They claimed that the Versailles Palace (including the Petit Trianon) was haunted. No one believed though.
Then they publish a book titled An Adventure. They publish it under the pseudonyms of Miss Morison and Miss Lamont. This is some evidence they unearthed:
- They had seen a plough, but on later trips they learned that no ploughs had been kept in gardens of Versailles in 1901. However, an old plough had been displayed in 1789.
- They had crossed a small bridge, but on later trips they could not locate the same bridge. However, they discovered that a bridge had existed there in 1789.
- They had seen two men in green coats. They later learned that those men were wearing the uniform of Marie Antoinette’s Swiss Guard.
- They had seen a sinister pock-marked man. This man exactly resembled Comte de Vaudreuil, an enemy of Marie Antoinette.
- They saw a footman rush out of a building and slam a door shut behind him. However, this door was actually barred and bolted shut when they visited, and had been kept for so many years.
- Finally the sketching lady could have been no one else but Marie Antoinette.
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4. London Bridge/Tower Bridge, U.K.
Untold horrors skulk in the silent shadows and spectral voices echo across ancient stone and ghosts keep a weary vigil amidst crumbling, weather worn stones and the devils breath is felt on a wind swept London Bridge.
From the very day of the dedication ceremony (1971), it became apparent that more than just a stone bridge came from London. Celebrators below the London Bridge noticed men and women dressed in British period clothing walking across the bridge. They thought what a nice touch for people dressed in costume for the inauguration of the bridge. It wasn’t till they faded into thin air that the onlookers realized that they are not locals at all but ghosts of the London Bridge.
5. Leap Castle, Offaly, Ireland
Up to 20 spirits are known to roam this most haunted 14th century Irish castle. A rather malevolent Irish elemental is resident in the hidden dungeon. It was discovered around 1900 by workmen and was filled with skeleton piled on top of one another. Those skeletons was said to be prisoners’. The castle is also home to the ‘Bloody Chapel’, where a warrior is reported to kill his brother over the alter and a ghostly priest who is also seen running past the chapel door.
6. Venice, Italy
Not the Venice that tourists know, but the dark and mysterious alleyways and side streets only known to the locals. After the sun goes down, if you are not careful, it is possible to get trapped in a time loop. There are numerous locations where you can see the ghostly figures in the shadows of the old buildings, which usually vanish into thin air when they realize that they have been spotted.
7. St. Michan’s Church, Dublin, Ireland
The organ in St. Michan’s is one of the oldest in Ireland still in use and it’s believed that George F. Handel played it when composing The Messiah. The vaults under this church contain thirty mummified bodies. Reached by a dark stone stairway, long narrow galleries containing coffins stretch before the visitor.
8. Borley Rectory, Essex, U.K.
Local legend has it that a monk and a novice were killed while trying to elope from there. The monk was hanged and his love was buried alive within the walls of the convent. The rectory was built in 1863 for the Reverend H.D.E. Bull. In 1892 the Reverend Bull died in the Blue Room and in 1927 Harry, his son, also passed away in the same room. It became known as the most haunted room in the rectory.Then Reverend Lionel Foyster and his wife, Marianne moved in in October 1930. People were locked out of their bedrooms, furniture was moved about, windows were smashed and many more odd occurrences. Mrs. Foyster was thrown from her bed at night, physically hit by invisible hands and once was almost suffocated with a mattress. Scrawled messages also began to appear on the walls of the house, written by a ghostly hand.
9. Chillingham Castle, U.K.
Chillingham’s most famous ghost is the ‘blue boy’ who cries and moans sorrowfully. He is seen, even in present day around a particular four poster bed in the castle and appears dressed in blue. During 1920s the bones of a young boy and the remains of blue dress were discovered in a wall alongside in a wall alongside another skeleton. Another ghost, Lady Mary Berkeley, is reputed to be searching her husband, who ran off with her sister. One of the most haunted areas is the old nursery where her portrait hung, and legend has it that she regularly stepped out of her frame to frighten the children and their nanny, chasing after them.
10. King’s Cellar Pub, Croydon, U.K.
Usually when the pub was full of customers, glasses and bottles would move of their own accord, then drop to the ground, breaking into pieces. Strange occasion a fire began, spread up one wall and ceiling and then vanished. The building is thought to have been built on the remains of an old fire station and the ghost of a fireman is known to haunt the pub. Staffs have also witnessed the spectre of a woman with a blue glow who whispers ‘help me’.
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