Six sailors died trying to bring Cleopatra's Needle to London while an elaborate Masonic ritual welcomed its twin obelisk to New York ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
The London Underground may be the world's 'most haunted' metro system. Egyptian priestesses, Victorian actors, Celtic queens & black nuns ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
A colony of ferocious feral pigs were once rumoured to inhabit the sewers under Hampstead. A terror to 'toshers' - men who scavenged sewers ..| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
Mummia, made from ground-up Egyptian mummies, was once gulped down as a medicine. A paint - mummy brown - used in famous pictures, was also ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
A tomb in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, is said to house a vampire. The vampire, blamed for a railway tunnel's catastrophic collapse, is ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen