Shadows in the Nave: A Guide to the Haunted Churches of England

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You'll find the nearly-abandoned town of Jazirat Al Hamra about 14 miles southwest of Ras Al Khaimah in northern UAE—located between a huge mall and a huge waterpark. In fact, many hikers will mark their path with tape or string to make it easier to find their way back out again. This report also goes to great pains to explain the “ghastly spectacle” presented by the opened coffins, and the “deadly stench” coming from the vaults, making the crime all the more heinous. That all changed in 2012, when an art student at the University of West Bohemia had an idea to lure visitors back to the church: a collection of 30 ghost sculptures sitting in the pews with their heads bowed.

From time to time when the crowds have gone and the Abbey settles into quite stillness, a ghostly soldier materialises alongside the tomb, and stands, head bowed, for a few minutes, before slowly dissolving into thin air.He is said to be a monk who was killed in the Abbey at the Chapel of Pyx during the reign of Henry VIII. A few days after its re-consecration in January 1066, Edward died, and Harold was crowned King of England. Others find this connection irrelevant due to the commonality of vigil stories (Westwood 2005: 410). Apparently a hot spot for some chilling apparitions, it is said that there are twelve resident ghosts that haunt the area. As we found with pubs a few weeks ago, old gathering places seem to continue to gather legends over time.

The destruction of the town took place when an Italian power company decided to merge two lakes into one to supply more water to a hydroelectric power station.Dozens of warships, planes, tanks, and railroad cars sank to the bottom of the lagoon, where they remain today in what is known as the “Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon. In 1749, the locals became convinced that the vaults beneath St Martin’s Church in West Drayton, Buckinghamshire, were haunted. When the vaults were abandoned, criminals, body snatchers and witches moved in, so take a tour and hear the tales of gore and witness an authentic witchcraft temple.