Castillos embrujados || Relatos del lado oscuro (Podcast)

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The list of haunted castles full of
stories is very long. Tales of the

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dark side for strange beings event is
inexplicable stories that other minds prefer ignorant.

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There is a very interesting history of
World War II and it has much to

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do with vera ghosts for the investment
of Normandy. Allied armies advance over French

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territory. As German armies cede territory, but the terrain is not entirely easy.

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There are hundreds of small kets,
small trees surrounding plots that are literally

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a death trap. Crossing one of
these kets on the other side you can

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see from explosive mines, machine guns
tanks. Whatever the scenario was, it

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required enormous wear and tear from the
soldiers, and obviously, there were few

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places to rest the war after it
had left villages devastated in ruins completely and

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with very great risks of finding buried
explosives, snipers and other threats. Hence,

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the soldiers preferred to rest in a
simple hole, in a canal or

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under a bridge, to run the
risk of getting into some house in those

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villages and finding death. But also, of course, some ancient ruin was

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very well received. A whole squad
could stay to make a bonfire and the

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thick walls wouldn' t mind once
again covering those tired men, in addition

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to being secluded and solitary constructions.
Often these had not been used by the

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Nazis, which was why, after
long walks, they used to look for

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an ancient convent, ruins of a
castle, anything to stay in. There

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' s a place there. You
know, there' s a place known

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as Mortemer. It' s an
old abbey. It is located in the

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perhaps most pleasant region of France,
one of those beautiful places, which is

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the Lyon Lafore region, a spectacular
site. When allied soldiers arrive at this

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place, it certainly seems to have
been an idyllic moment. Only there were

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cannons placed machine guns barbed wire,
many things of that style that did not

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give much space to the contemplation of
tranquility, so the advance was quick.

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There were numerous casualties, especially in
a small area near the castle or the

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abbey of Mortemer. Where they found
strong resistance from the enemy. In this

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little forest where the trees close very
tightly, snipers wreaked havoc among American troops

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until they finally ended the resistance.
After long hours of sustained combat and endless

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walks, American soldiers are or are
allowed to take a recess and rest a

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few hours that night the ideal place, Mortemer Abbey why not semi- damaged.

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Long halls of that old abbey are
destroyed when the Americans arrive. In

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addition to this, the only inhabitant
or caregiver had disappeared to the gno a

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few days earlier precisely because of the
fear of the American invasion and all the

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rumors that had been under it,
a small cava owned by one of the

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multiple owners, so the soldiers feel
fortunate. They find those basements, very

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cozy, completely hidden where they can
make a bonfire without risk of getting a

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gun or shooting a sniper. Beyond, they also find other rooms still usable

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and then the caretaker' s house, nice, warm with a huge fireplace

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integrated into the abbey. The abbey, of course, was not a new

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place, much less, it was
one of those very old constructions, very

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very old, perhaps built in the
13th century by one of those strange characters,

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William, the conqueror, who in
turn would have given Henry in Buclerk,

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his son abbey to finish it,
so it was a long- term

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construction. The thick walls gave an
idea of the antiquity, but certainly little

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did this matter to the tired soldiers, who enjoyed a moment of conversation owing

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to some of the bottles in the
old cava, basically distracting themselves from the

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heat of battle. A little later, by nightfall completely the rooms that had

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been occupied by these soldiers, or
at least the part of the basement,

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traditionally cold and gloomy, had turned
out to be a pleasant place. By

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lighting a bonfire near a small breathing
harness, you could be very well.

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In addition to this, heating some
food had been encouraging for those men who

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I repeat had seen death very closely. The hours passed. Finally, the

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weariness ended up bending those talkative soldiers
who, in the midst of this security

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provided by the old abbey, felt
at home again confident. They joked,

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took big sips of that wine and
even someone made coffee, which is why

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they were very comfortable. Little by
little they fell asleep, except the sentries

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placed on the outskirts of the abbey
and on the top of one of the

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bell towers of the also ruined church, a risky and very dangerous site,

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but finally the site with better observation
of all places. Several soldiers remained in

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those positions, while the rest of
the detachment rested inside. Hours pass and

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eleven o' clock at night.
The night is quiet, calm sky,

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pleasant clear. There' s a
penetrating silence. Voices of France for the

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time of the Second World War no
longer have virtually any wildlife, so there

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is absolute silence far away, in
the distance, many kilometers, perhaps hundreds

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of kilometers, you can see the
fulgors, the radiances, the cannons that

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explode, the shootings and the battle
at some point in the French territory where

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the combat continues at night. On
this side, it' s all silence.

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The Nazi troops had left the site
for some time and had given the

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land to the Americans, returning their
steps to Berlin, which is why the

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site is pleasantly peaceful. The people
of the nearby villa in the Lyons Leffory

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area have left the houses as well
and some begin to return, but are

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a couple of miles away. The
old abbey of Mortemer is at an absolutely

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lonely point for those who use contemplation
and tranquility. It is an ideal hard

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place of those walls, a beautiful
sky, penetrating silence, silence. The

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matter is that those men begin to
rest peacefully. There is overwhelming silence on

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the outside of Mortemer' s old
abbey. It' s a small hillside.

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You know the paved road all very
well, only at eleven o'

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clock at night something doesn' t
start to work well. When you begin

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to hear noises, strange noises coming
from the abbey itself. In some regions

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of this abbey, the old roofs
that were still standing begin to let footsteps

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be heard, steps of someone walking. But not only that. You can

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also hear a few other weird things, from strange blows, banging on the

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walls, as if someone were inside
a room and hitting hard at the door.

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But in this case the door is
the walls. The noise causes the

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officers, the soldiers on duty to
start searching for origin and even ask the

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sergeant for a little support, since
they presume there may be someone trapped.

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They do not know whether it is
an enemy or not, but the noises

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become very intense to the point where
they begin to create a certain nervousness.

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The soldier who is in the part
of the old bell tower, in the

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upper part, reports nothing, observes
nothing, decides finally to descend from that

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place, because he also begins to
hear blows and noises just below him,

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which causes him a feeling of enormous
restlessness outside. Permanent silence is one of

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the quietest things there can be,
but inside the building the noises happen to

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each other, to the point where
finally the sound becomes perfectly distinguishable. It

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' s a woman' s cry, a tearing cry from a female throat

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that tears the air of that night, many of the soldiers stand up,

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look for their weapons and get ready
to see what it' s all about.

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But nothing is found, patrols are
started in different directions, with the

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traditional password, with the traditional password
or safe conduct of lightning and thunder,

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but they find no one. They' re around the building trying to find

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out which woman was the one who
screamed. If it' s a woman

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in trouble, maybe she' s
been trapped there and trying to run away

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from the Nazis or if it'
s a thorn in her mind. They

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comb the area meticulously, but as
the minutes pass and it approaches midnight,

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the situation becomes more disturbing, as
they even see a woman walking well,

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walking without saying as she does.
Reported one of the guard lines had seen

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a woman dressed in white cross in
front of him in the area of the

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old entrance to the gate, the
gate of the Abbey having seen pass this

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woman dressed in white, levitating there
were no feet, there were no faces,

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simply a female figure advancing with a
kind of veil, sliding quietly in

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front of her eyes, attacked with
a crisis of nerves, boasting that it

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was a fatal fairy, that is, a omen of her own death.

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That guard cape had to be contained
by his companions so that he would not

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run away from the place. Minutes
later, another officer of the detachment itself

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would burst into a nervous breakdown when
he would hear the blows just behind him

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on a completely closed wall. When
he tried to check, he came across

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the appearance of the white lady again
next to him, in an attitude of

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asking for something, that soldier would
have run out of the place and again

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end up in the nearby grove,
trembling cold with some of his companions who

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had experienced an incredible feeling of fear
and particularly anguish. At about three in

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the morning, some soldiers who had
remained inside the abbey, the former abbey

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of Mortemer continued to try to find
out where the noises came from. Several

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of them began to make a tour, combing the building between what is called

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the old pigeon, a high part
on a terrace where everyone can still see

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the small drawers of the pigeons.
The earlier use of Mortemer Abbey had a

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pigeon farm for the consumption of the
abbey itself left some of these small holes

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and others soldiers began to make this
tour. But something happens, because well,

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being in the Palomar, they began
to experience a nervous breakdown, several

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of them and to feel a deep
anguish. One of them claimed that he

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felt he was dying. They had
to descend quickly from the site and,

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in the midst of an extreme nervous
situation, be contained and receive injections of

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morphine, from which it is used
to control the pain, to appease them

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a little, since a feeling of
anguish had been generated that bordered on the

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unbearable when one of the nurses asked
well, but what it is they did

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not know how to say. None
of them had any particular reason for those

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distresses, except, of course,
the fact of watching the next one die

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in the battle of the previous morning. Other than that, they didn'

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t understand what it was about.
It was attributed to a post- traumatic

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stress crisis and stuff like that.
The morphine helped, but finally the soldiers

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did not find the rest they wanted. They left the building with the first

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rays of the sun to start a
long walk in the direction of another battle

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front. Weeks later, another group
of soldiers, equally American, would cross

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that place and again choose Mortemer Abbey
as a resting place. I told you

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that the place was attractive, charming, wide walls, thick dry interior,

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there was no moisture at all.
So they come back to the abbey,

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get in, set up campfires,
a very pleasant atmosphere until eleven o'

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clock in the night, when they
hear again the blows on the walls,

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scratches, inexplicable noises and the woman' s scream. At that point of

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new account, the soldiers even opened
two very curious reports handed over to one

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of the colonels, where he pointed
out the Abbey of Mortemer as a strange

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place. Ghosts were not mentioned,
but within one of the parties mentioned the

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presence of a well- identified woman, dressed in white and not pointing out

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the fact that she had no feet, but later they would tell a British

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reporter about this. What I had
lived in there. The fact is that

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the second group of soldiers lived the
same fate. They had to leave the

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abbey around 3 a m, when
the situation became unsustainable due to the continuing

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siege of ghosts. At that point. In addition, the presence of white

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male figures was reported, at least
from the part where the soldiers were,

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at the bottom, to the top
where the dovecote was doing a kind of

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procession. The image must have been
so shocking because the soldiers fired at that

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time in the morning and started the
walk they had to take until the next

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day because they couldn' t stand
the attention of being in that place.

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And well, Mortemer Abbey has a
long history. As I was saying,

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it was built in the 12th century. It was the scene of many intrigues.

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Not that it was a place of
perdition, much less an abbey.

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It was a monastic site, but
it was controlled by vicious, cruel and

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violent monarchs who used these kinds of
institutions and places for their personal interests,

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even as places of punishment for rebellious
sons or daughters, to hide a favorite

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lover and that simply the queen did
not find out or otherwise, to hide

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and detain a lover who was no
longer wanted and even to kill her.

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The interior of these places and their
very thick walls were ideal places to hide

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someone' s body and, in
fact, so would the famous White Lady.

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She would be no more or less
maimed by a young woman of the

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nobility, who would have been condemned
to be imperious on the walls of Mortemer

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' s abbey by her own father, who apparently felt aggrieved by her daughter

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' s unscathed conduct and for not
having accepted the marriage engagement with a nobleman

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who was not to her liking.
Matilde was sent to Mortemer, locked in

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a small cell with callicanto until he
died of hunger for thirst for what was

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casually in place where the soldiers reported
hearing that noise. But Matilde wasn'

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t the only one to lose her
life inside Mortemer. Years after that,

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already during the French Revolution, Mortemer
was practically abandoned, giving four people inside

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four monks who were the ones who
kept the old abbey and well, remained

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contemplative. The fact is that the
revolutionaries hear that there are four men up

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there in a castle and in the
ignorance of those people presume that they are

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wealthy nobles, who inhabit a luxurious
castle and not totally ruined monks and whose

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only fortune was some wine barrels that
were in the basement. Yeah, in

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that nice, warm basement where American
soldiers would go two hundred years later.

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The matter is that the revolutionaries arrive
and when they find no surprising resource or

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jewelry, far from it, they
kill the monks precisely in the basement.

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Yeah, right there angry that they
didn' t find the riches they were

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looking for, they destroyed the wine
barrels. That is why it was said

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that in the basement, when it
smells of wine, it is necessary to

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leave, because that is when the
monks appear, whose blood was mixed with

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the wine from the barrels of that
place and then, well, the other

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stories that are given there are many. The last of the caretakers in charge

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of Mortemer Abbey left the place in
a thousand nine hundred and sixty- five

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when he could no longer endure the
stalking of the ghosts of Mortemer to the

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point where he preferred to remain unemployed
to continue there taking care of that place

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that was considered perhaps one of the
most enchanted places in all of France.

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Mortemer' s story isn' t
that strange. In other parts of the

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world there are similar events. What
is interesting is the large number of witnesses

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who have witnessed sense or in some
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Stories that are there. Another of
these places is unique is a spectacular

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place. It is a very old
castle of one thousand three hundred and fifty.

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Imagine if well it was built a
little earlier, about one thousand two

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hundred seventy, in an equally remote
place. The idea of this castle was

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that of a fortress where to take
refuge in the event of invasions in Brittany,

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which was being besieged by all sorts
of tribes. This place turned out

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to be a huge construction, very
abundant, so to speak, thick walls

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with a huge moat and a lake
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Betley or Bedly, as he is
known, remains covered with dense haze

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of very thick haze. There are
several kets around, little groves, which

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prevented the inhabitants of Betly from traveling
to other cities when the weather did not

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allow it. Mist became so dense
at some times of the year that road

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robbers waited standing on the roads waiting
for someone in the mist to try to

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get past it and kill it.
Betly' s road was known as one

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of the most dangerous sites there was. Contrary to the idea that it was

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a place of refuge in the event
of an invasion, Betly turned out to

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be a very dangerous place, a
place where many people lost their lives and

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their bodies were thrown into the lake
near the castle, so that there was

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no evidence of the crime and so
there were no groups of soldiers chasing the

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highway robbers. The castle as such
continued to be occupied in different periods of

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time, but throughout this time there
were narratives about ghostly visions. Yes,

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one of Betly' s most well- known appearances is that of so-

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called Father Cameron, a priest who
would have died in the waters of the

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lake while attempting to cross a boat
to avoid using the Betly road, which

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was full of robbers during the transport
along the lake, the boat in which

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he was trying to cross would have
been gloomy and Father Cameron would have died.

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However, his ghost would often continue
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waters and arriving at the castle,
but not just his. Not during the

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following centuries, n o n o
nso of stories about ghostly apparitions was phenomenal.

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Many walkers who went to the Betly
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the situation was already more passable and
there were fewer skippers, experienced terrifying experiences

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as they were accompanied along the way
by ghost walkers. Yes, even during

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the day, in the midst of
the mist that covers these places, many

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people reported having heard someone' s
footsteps by their side as they tried to

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ask who they were or what they
wanted. They were faced with the absolute

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void. There was no one,
but some others were not so lucky and

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could see in the mist the ghostly
vision of some person walking. One of

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Betly' s perhaps most remembered events
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when a group of walkers, a
group of people from the nearest position

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to Betlay, ran into another group
of people, but they were not alive.

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It was a ghostly vision of several
persons as a whole who suddenly realized

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that they were literally surrounded by spectra
whose appearances could not be clearly defined in

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the midst of the mist, but
that they turned out to be completely alien

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to the time in which they were
living and were strange faces, absent,

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looks, lost, knights and ladies
whose feet could not be distinguished very well

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in the midst of that mist,
which generated a new wave of panic around

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Betly that, in case something was
missing between Father Cameron' s appearances and

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the appearances of the road, little
by little was falling into disuse and,

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unfortunately, the castle was successively sold
to other families, because those Ruin tried

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to occupy were facing the road itself
and the castle itself with the appearance of

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Father Cameron, who was accustomed to
leave wet, if trodden, wet footprints

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on the castle floors, from the
bottom, at the entrance to the rooms

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on the upper floor, where it
was supposed that Father Cameron had his quarters

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near the main chamber of the noble
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Back then. Successive apparitions were also
violent, as Father Cameron' s vision

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was not a pleasant vision. He
used to see that damp figure coming out

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of the waters, dragging the rough
habit, leaving traces behind, but at

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the time of trying to ask something, just turning around to see it the

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vision simply faded away. On other
occasions, the serfdom reported having seen him,

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crossing through the walls and going out
into nowhere as he disappeared completely,

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which generated real panic along with the
walkers' accounts about the ghostly apparitions on

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the way to Betly, the site
became very difficult to inhabit. So successively,

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families who arrived and bought the properties
preferred to occupy the simple houses,

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the most recent constructions that were outside
the forest area, away from the fog,

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so the castle was falling into disuse
and gradually deteriorating. But Betley wasn

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' t abandoned. He continued to
see some people who cared for the castle

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and who, knowing Father Cameron'
s adventures, simply chose to lock themselves

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in the quiet rooms of the castle, that is, three rooms in the

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back, while the rest of the
castle had to be alone, since no

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one wanted to face that ghostly vision
and many others, since there was even

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one who claimed to have seen an
elderly lady and entry in kilos. It

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was supposed to have been a housekeeper
who would have died in the castle,

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precisely from the advanced age of natural
death, but who would have stayed there.

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On other occasions a coachman has been
seen arriving. The coachman descends from

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nothing, as the carriage is not
observed, but can be distinguished in the

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middle of silence or the afternoons of
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The noise of the helmets of horses
that are not seen, the noise

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of cart wheels that hit the stones
of the road, but that never arrives.

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And finally, the appearance of a
long slender subject. It is supposed

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to have been one of the many
horsemen who were killed on the way to

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Bethly for a thousand nine hundred and
seventy. The last family to buy the

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property resorted this simple yet exorno to
try to put an end to these apparitions.

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The exorcist as such repeatedly tried,
along with several fellow professionals, to

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expel those presences or send them to
eternal rest or as you wish to call

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them. But the efforts were not
very productive, as Beatly continued to live

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the same paranormal phenomena past the blissful
exorcism and efforts to end the matter.

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The castle was finally sold again because
the family who bought it could never occupy

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it. So the property was bought
no more or less than by a family

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of antique dealers, people specializing in
ancient objects, ancient constructions and so on,

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who casually lived Father Cameron' s
visit on many occasions and knowing the

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stories about Bedry' s old road, used the back road, built in

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the 1930s and surrounding the property from
the back, uniting several towns and remaining

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a few meters from Betly Castle.
Currently Betly is surrounded by several modern buildings

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and the old property has ceased to
be the silent and remote haunted construction to

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become a place surrounded by new constructions
with the passage of a busy road of

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few meters. And yet, Father
Cameron is still seen in the evenings of

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dense fog. He comes back out
of the waters and makes his usual way.

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The castle is not completely inhabited.
Eventually, this group of antique dealers

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returns to the property, spends a
few days and then leaves the site.

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The only people left in charge of
the castle are the caretaker, two gardeners

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and a housekeeper, who live in
a house built to us outside the castle,

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since inside very hardly anyone supports the
different ghostly appearances that up to this

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point have been reluctant to leave the
castle and go to eternal life. As

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such, despite the exorcist efforts,
healers, good ghost hunters and any number

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of people who have gone to Bedly
to see if they can help in anything

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yet, Father Cameron remains the same
old ghost fool who comes back from time

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to time to dirty with wet footprints, the polished, wood floors of Betli.

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And well, since we' re
talking about haunted places, there'

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s a castle where that horror tale
thing really applies. It' s Hermitage

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Castle. This castle was built in
one thousand two hundred forty- two.

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Since you an idea a long time
ago, more than seven hundred years it

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was built. But as such,
the site began to have paranormal problems very

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early on. In a thousand three
hundred forty- two, about a hundred

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years later, there occurred the death
of a rather feared subject, Sir Alexander

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Ramsey, who was the Sheriff of
Tibio Dell In those years, this subject,

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Alexander Rama Ramsey, was caught so
to speak, no less than by

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the owner of the castle, a
certain doglas who had bought the property and

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who, having a rivalry with the
Sheriff of Tibio, decided to take his

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life. But not to get your
hands dirty, an issue that was important

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at the time. If he killed
him by his own hand, cut off

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his head or made him ar,
he would be guilty of murder. To

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avoid that, he locks him in
one of the castle towers, where Alexander

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rammey Ramsey dies of starvation, literally
starves to death. A few years later,

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the castle of Hermitage begins to be
visited by a ghostly silhouette, of

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sad appearance, famous, completely dulled
and with torn clothes. He was clearly

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identified with the Sheriff of Tibiote.
Since about one thousand three hundred and forty

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- eight, the ghost of Alexander
Ramsey has continued to visit the castle and

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many people have had the opportunity to
see this apparition or to suffer it in

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some way, as the apparition is
not pleasant. In fact, she is

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a terrifying figure with her eyes practically
out of orbit, her face together,

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a disembodied silhouette, literally that of
ambula dragging her feet and causing a very

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unpleasant noise. Similar to nail dragging. It is said that when Alexander Ramsey

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was taken out of the tower where
he had been locked, he had torn

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pieces out of the door trying to
scratch it to open it in his despair,

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for which he had torn his nails
and with the bones he had tried

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to tear the noise. They assure
you are still listening even today. But

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he' s not the only ghost
in Hermitage Castle. No. In fact,

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this is one of many. Another
one that also runs along the castle

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is said to be the ghost of
Lord Zullis. Zollis turned out to be

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a terrible man, a cruel man, an extremely dangerous and depraved subject.

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Zullis used to kidnap children from neighboring
villages for acts of black magic. Obviously,

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this included the torture and execution of
children from various neighbouring populations, where

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they began to notice the mysterious disappearance
of children. And at the same time,

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there were those who claimed to have
heard screams inside the castle of Germitas,

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owned by Lord Zullis, which is
why the villagers finally stand up in

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arms, catch Lord Zullis, judge
him and lynch him. Yeah, they

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lynch him, they burn him.
I live well, they make horrors because

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this man had truly wreaked havoc among
the population. Lord Zullis' ghost is

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still there. He' s not
gone, but not just him. One

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of the most rugged scenes anyone can
live within the paranormal phenomenon is inside Hermitage

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Castle, as on certain nights,
you can hear the crying and screaming of

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the children. Yes, the people
who lived it and who have lived it

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assure that it is one of the
most violent moments that can be lived when,

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amid the silence of the night,
in the solitude of that castle,

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the thick walls that flow from the
outside world begin to release little by little.

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First as if they were small,
murmurs, laughs, games, you

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can hear the sound of children playing
and then give way to complaints, laments

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and tearful screams of children. Few
have managed to bear it. Even about

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a thousand nine hundred and twenty,
a departure of researchers from the Society of

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Psychic Research in London would intervene at
the castle of Germites to try to find

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out how true that was. Inside
the result they couldn' t stand the

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night. They left the place declaring
that the site was indeed delighted after not

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being able to find the origin of
the screams. Interestingly, these cries increase

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dramatically when the appearance of the ghost
of Lord Zullis also occurs, who frequents

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several rooms of the castle in which
the acts of black magic are said to

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be so, but also the area
of the chapel. The old castle of

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Germitas has a small chapel inside it
and it is said that the ghost of

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Lord Zullis regularly comes to ask forgiveness
for the crimes committed, since he never

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found eternal rest and therefore continues to
beg forgiveness so that his soul can depart,

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which is unlikely, because no one
has established contact and the appearance as

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such turns out to be extremely apathetic
and, in fact, it is usually

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a very quick vision, very fleeting, but which results in the screams becoming

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deafening, particularly in those rooms located
towards the ground floor, in the basement,

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where it is said that he practiced
the rites of black magic and murdered

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children. But yes, this wasn' t all. There is also another

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spirit, yes, of a subject
known as Red Capsly. This guy is

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said to be a horrible old man
with the deformed teeth similar to the fangs

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of a vampire who used to wear
iron boots and a strange red cap.

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From there the name Red Capsly according
to tradition, this subject Sly assaulted the

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travelers at night, murdered them,
took their belongings and then took the blood

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from their bodies, filling that kind
of cap he used made of leather to

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bring the blood to his master Lord
Zulli, Red Capsly would also be killed

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precisely when Sully the lynched by the
people. Both find death at the same

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time and both become ghostly appearances of
this place. For centuries the presence of

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Red Cap Sly has been reported in
the area of the tower and in the

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area of the basement part, where
acts of black magic are said to have

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been performed. This sinister character,
who cannot be certain that it has existed,

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as it is practically a legend,
has also been reported on many occasions.

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But perhaps the phenomenon that has impressed
the people who have witnessed him most

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and which has caused them to come
out of the place in stampede, is

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that of the children' s screams. They don' t explain where they

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come from. Suddenly they begin to
grow to the point of becoming literally unbearable

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have caused people to flee. Hermitage
has not been inhabited for many years,

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but the time that remained a living
castle, people tried since the celebration of

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very complicated rites, exorcisms, special
blessings, nothing, nothing has worked and

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the castle, at least until today, remains known as a highly haunted site.

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What do you think? They are
enigmatic places and there are complete records

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of the phenomena that have occurred inside
these places. In the particular case of

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Germitas, it is a very abundant
file that not only recovers the stories of

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people who have seen to wander Blue
and or subjectslay, but have tried to

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find out what is desert behind the
stories of atrocities committed in the castle and

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to the amazement of many, it
seems that they are true, since,

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among other things, in a part
near the castle numerous skeletons of people who

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were apparently executed or killed, as
they presented in the bones, were found.

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The bones found clear were seen cut
with a sword, that is,

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they had been crossed by a sword, which causes particular wounds to the bones,

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besides causing the death of the person, leaves evidence of the violence with

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which they were killed, being marked
the territory for at least seven hundred years.

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Imagine, the list of haunted castles
full of stories is very long.

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In fact, virtually every old and
abandoned castle has its own ghost. They

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are ideal places, but what is
the explanation for this good. First of

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all, let us bear in mind
that they were places of much brutality within

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the most accepted theories about ghostly impregnation. This is the fact of violent situations,

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intense emotions that get caught in the
middle of the walls and that somehow

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make themselves felt in people who may
have a special sensitivity is not a very

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good explanation, since somehow there are
many loose ends. Another theory is that

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those characters who lived a terrible death
or who were left with unfinished business,

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either for fear of hell or for
whatever reason, are trapped there. The

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theories are many, but it is
curious to mention why the good ancient castles,

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for example in the case of Hermitage, are seven hundred years of history.

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Few buildings live so many years,
few buildings, in addition, had

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dungeons, places of torture, places
of execution and lived key moments. Perhaps

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that marks the terrain as such and
therefore these phantom phenomena happen, not so

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much by the construction itself, although
there are some theories that point out that

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some more materials in combination with water
generate peculiar magnetic fields that can alter people

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' s perception. Even in England, in recent years and researchers have given

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themselves the task of trying to analyze
how much can be real what is reported.

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Taking witnesses to different buildings known or
known as haunted places, they have

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begun to tour and question visitors to
see if any of them lived a paranormal

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experience. Apparently, the result could
be that in these old castles there are

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very particular conditions, such as the
fact that previous windows have been covered,

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doors leading to other rooms of the
building have been closed. But with the

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passage of time there remain small fissures
through which wind currents cross, generating very

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thin but high intensity streams of air, which could generate tactile sensations such as

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the touch of one hand, particularly
intense colds in some places, etcetera,

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etcetera. The explanation was very interesting, very logical, but it was very

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far from clarifying how different people,
at different times observe a very similar figure

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that part of the story has not
been made clear. Something was missing to

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clarify that for centuries people have seen
the same myth, that is, that

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an oral tradition of talking about ghosts
suggests to people and that ultimately anything is

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attributed to the ghost of the castle. It is possible, of course,

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it is possible, but there have
been eyewitnesses who claim to have seen him

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physically, that is, at least
the appearance of something physical. Whatever the

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fact is, it' s hard
to understand, it' s hard to

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explain, but it happens. And
another of those buildings that has a long

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history is the old Tower of Bockholm. It is now terribly destroyed. It

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' s an ancient construction. It
is a 15th century construction of a thousand

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and four hundred and fraction. Buckholm
Tower, as it was originally known,

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was home to the house, the
castle of Count Pringel. Count Pringle turned

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out to be a sadistic, sadistic, tyrannical, violent man who sowed fear

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among the people around him. In
fact, the Tower of Bockholm was not

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a pleasant place. This guy hadn' t made the slightest effort to build

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a home that was attractive, of
course not. In fact, a place

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had been sought that would make it
violent, even in sight, as the

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guy was truly fearsome and used to
exert dominant pressure and violence on the rest

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of the people, including his own
wife and children, who lived in fear

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of one day being killed by the
father. It wasn' t weird.

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He hadn' t killed a lot
of people This guy, Count Pringle,

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had killed peasant adversaries, people who
owed him money sometimes. There was a

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rumor out there that he had killed
his mistress on duty on several occasions.

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In fact, and that even the
death of his wife had been caused by

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him. It is said that even
one day he locked up a wounded elder

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and his son for no reason.
The old man had found him on the

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way and asking the Count of Pringal
for mercy. The Count of Pringle was

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uncomfortable with the presence of the beggar, so he took him to the castle.

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When the son went out to beg
for mercy, the son was also

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locked in the castle. When the
old man' s wife comes to beg

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the Count of Pringle for the freedom
of her husband and son, the Count

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also locks her up well, at
least takes her to where the two men

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were held. It is said that
when she opened the door to that cell,

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the woman watched the bodies of her
husband and son, hung by the

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jaw of hooks on the ceiling,
terrified. The count greatly defied. The

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vision of that woman, getting rid
of the impression of horror. After this,

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the woman calmed down and quietly realized
that she looked back at the count,

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whom she stared at and uttered a
curse. The curse was basically that

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the evil he had done throughout his
life would fall upon him and torment him

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for all eternity. Then, according
to legend, the count was frightened because

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of that curse, since from that
very day on, the Count of Pringan,

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that heartless subject, would live besieged
by horrible visions of corpses, broken,

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literally destroyed by those who pursued him
all the time, just as he

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had done in life. When the
Count of Pringoll died, the castle was

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abandoned yes, it was simply abandoned. People didn' t want to know

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anything about that famous Buckholm Tower.
The woman the children fled the place,

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sold what they could and disappeared,
leaving the tomb of Count Pringle in the

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back of the tower and abandoning everything
there. Then begins to grow the black

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legend of the castle, since it
is told that the villagers heard from noises,

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exvi strange from the old tower,
blows, furniture, falling, objects,

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crawling, chains groaning, laments,
well, a whole gallery of horrors,

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which caused for many years the Buckholm
tower was neither visited nor surrounded go.

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People didn' t go through there. They avoided crossing that area.

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But not only that. It is
also said that the howlings of a pack

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of dogs could be heard chasing a
prey and hearing the screams of a man

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dying being attacked by the pack,
which was not uncommon. The Earl of

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Pringle had in his possession a certain
family, a significant number of dogs,

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which he used to torment people,
not necessarily his enemies, simply people,

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and he used to enjoy throwing dogs
to chase a person who fought for his

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life. But before a pack of
those huge dogs there wasn' t much

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to do. So that story of
Baskerville' s hound has its antecedent in

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the Earl of Pringal Who used to
do that. He captured one person,

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locked her up in the castle,
and after a few days he offered her

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freedom. At the moment that unhappy
man ran out of the castle, he

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let go of the pack of dogs
and he himself went back on his horse,

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only to enjoy the spectacle of seeing
the dogs tear that person apart.

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That was reported perhaps about thirty or
forty years after Pringl' s death,

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the people of the village claimed to
keep hearing the pack of dogs and the

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screams of the person they attacked.
The tower of Bukholm finally continued to be

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abandoned and crumbled, until today it
is turned into a pile of semi-

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destructed stacked rocks everywhere curious. Still
today there are those who say that at

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night the noise of dogs is heard
again. Yes, the pack and the

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screams of someone who is besieged by
dogs ironically. The other ghostly view there

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is that of Pringal, the Count
of Pringel who was sometimes seen walking inside

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the tower while it was still standing
there for 1, 500. It was

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said that one could see through the
holes of the windows pass the ghostly figure

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of the Earl of Pring The fear
was still present, as there was the

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legend that the Count of Pringol could
come down from the tower to continue killing

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people. Such a thing never happened, but the story remained there And today,

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in the 21st century, legend still
exists and there are still some people

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who claim to have heard the dogs
of the Count of Pringol barking in the

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middle of the night. We don' t know how true it can be

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can just be confusion environmental noises dogs
in another latitude. But let me tell

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you that in England it' s
not usually a place where dogs are loose

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on the street. There are usually
no large cages and the Buckholm tower is

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located within a preservation area where pets
are not allowed and, of course,

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no one lives about that tower.
Then what are these dogs, who is

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the one who shouts good question,
as if it were a horror film that

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repeats itself over and over again in
a place where, on the one hand,

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huge violence, terrible emotions, sorcery, human perversity and clear paranormal phenomena,

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a cocktail that generates a haunted castle
and well, allow me some calls

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from the audience has called us Salvador
Armando Vázquez García, who asks us if

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00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:09.480
we can talk about Atlantis hear and
the subject of Atlantis it is not very

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common for us to talk about it
in accounts of the dark side, neither

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Atlantis nor memory, basically because well, it is a matter that, if

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it were true, would have been
simply history and would have nothing spectacular as

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to the paranormal or the mystery.
But there' s a detail there.

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It is likely that many cultures,
even Mesoamerican, have spoken of Atlantis.

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The ancient Bible would also have spoken
of this platoon. The famous philosopher would

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also have made a comprehensive review of
the location of Atlantis and there would be

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some small evidence that Atlantis would not
have been at least in the sense it

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has been handled. That is,
to us Atlantis immediately refers a place of

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columns in the Greek Roman style,
subjects in robes walking while eating grapes with

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laurels on their heads in a splendid
place. But finally very primitive. Not

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some claim that, if true,
Atlantis would have been a bustling, modern

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city, with technology equipment and that
it would have even surpassed ours, that

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it would have been the antecedent of
the human race and that, therefore,

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it would have been a highly developed
civilization. So it' s worth returning

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to that topic, because it would
be interesting to think that maybe some omnis

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aren' t strange creatures from the
cosmos, but they' re ancient inhabitants

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of planet earth, who, due
to some catastrophe or some situation, decided

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to leave the place and then take
a look again at how the planet is

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00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:55.199
going or what we' re leaving
the planet. So interesting suggestion. We

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have also been called Rafael César Carmona, who congratulates and sends many greetings.

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Mr Bolaños also called us a hug
over there. Thank you very much for

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remembering us always almost seven years away
from having started the project accounts of the

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dark side, we are very far
from that we run out of material.

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As simple as that, new phenomena
continue to appear every day, of course,

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new cases of human perversity and,
of course, there are new events

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within the terrain of loufology. So
the road far from narrowing and getting smaller,

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continues to be used, of course, with the favor of your company.

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Now, to top it off,
I' m talking to a classic.

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Drum Landring Castle is an exceptional place
to watch. Two ghosts live in

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this place. One of them is
that of a woman and the other of

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a monkey, yes, of an
ape. The woman, well, she

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' s a woman, she'
s her obvious, but she doesn'

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t have a head or she doesn' t have a head on her shoulders.

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He' s got it, in
fact, in his hands. The

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Landrich Drum Castle has been the subject
of many novels, including Canterbury' s

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ghost. The famous comic friendly novel
tells of a ghost very similar to the

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ghosts of Drum Lanric. There was
a tragic event in this place. Lady

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Anne Douglas, a 17th- century
noblewoman, died beheaded. There' s

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no record of who the hell cut
off his head. The fact is,

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she died decapitated. Moreover, the
tomb of Lady And Douglas is located on

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the outskirts of Drumlandrich Castle and at
some point the body was exhumed and,

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indeed, the head had been cut
off. Well, the ghost who appears

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and wanders through the great wings of
the castle, appears holding his head in

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his hands. It' s not
a pleasant vision, I assure you.

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But the other good one is even
stranger. It' s a monkey'

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s. This creature suddenly appears in
a room. The room is known as

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the monkey' s room. And
well, it' s not because the

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00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:19.639
monkey lived there, but because the
dead monkey appears in the ghost of a

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monkey. The question is where it
came from. Yes, besides this,

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it is nowhere recorded that any of
the lords or nobles who lived in the

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castle would have had a monkey.
And yet it is a very frequent occurrence.

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Within the appearances of Drum Landrig it
is said that it is more possible

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to meet the ghost of the monkey
than to meet the ghost of Lady Anne.

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Just suddenly someone enters the room,
into the monkey' s room,

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00:56:51.639 --> 00:56:55.679
as he is known and observes a
nice mico jumping from one place to another

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00:56:55.760 --> 00:57:01.159
and disappearing against the wall Evidently,
there is no such mico. It'

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s a ghostly apparition. The explanation. There was no attempt to find out

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if at any point there would have
been a chimpanzee or something there, but

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no, there' s no historical
record, no part of them having that

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00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:21.119
pet. There was even some madman
out there who claimed that the chimpanzee or,

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00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:24.400
this mico that appears there was from
a circus that would have been killed

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00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:30.159
in the castle as part of the
lord' s hunt, who would have

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00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:31.880
found it nice to kill the animal. But there is no record of this.

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00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:37.719
And yet there is a record of
many similar appearances, so you see,

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not all apparitions are human. Finally, this is the castle that is

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somewhat hilarious, well, hilarious for
you or for me in the sense of

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00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:52.679
watching a headless ghost run with his
head in his hands. But for those

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00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:58.840
who have witnessed it is a grotesque
spectacle and claim that the presence of Lady

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and Douglas expressed the death of someone
close to the family who owns the castle.

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Who knows how true he can do
or who knows what there is.

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00:58:08.039 --> 00:58:15.639
Behind these apparitions, perhaps simply legends, but a legend of a chimpanzee ghost

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00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:21.519
hard to believe. I just have
to thank you for the favor of your

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00:58:21.519 --> 00:58:25.039
company, the fact that you have
accompanied me along this journey for ghostly phenomena

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that, although they seem distant to
us for those who have lived it,

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do not turn out to be very
pleasant. I wish you the best of

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