The World's Most Mysterious CastlesDundurn, 16.10.2005 г. - 304 страници 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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... appeared some forty thousand years ago and died out roughly twelve thousand years ago. They had high foreheads and eyebrow ridges and jaws like ours. They seem to have been mainly cave dwellers from Spain and southern France. Their ...
... appeared and then gradually faded out again, leaving behind the mystery of where they had gone and why. One possible solution turned up in 1998 in a Portuguese cave dwelling in the Lapedo Valley, less than 160 kilometres north of Lisbon ...
... appeared in some ancient records as Gilet and was known to have worked on Harlech Castle in 1286. In the same year, there are records of Albert de Menz working there. He seems to have been a chimney specialist — perhaps a thirteenth ...
... appearance of a gentle envelope of light around a fourposter bed, on which the recumbent figure of a boy dressed in blue can be seen. It is also reported that behind the walls of this same chamber the skeleton of a young boy and ...
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