The remains of gibbets & gallows scattered across England are linked to legends of pirates, ghostly highwaymen, skulls in attics, cursed chairs, guillotines| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
A vampire is said to have menaced Croglin village, Cumbria. Issuing at night from a churchyard vault, it entered a young woman's room and bit| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
Jane Lewson - a likely model for Dickens's Miss Havisham - reputedly lived to 116 in a gloomy, grimy mansion, never washing or changing her ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
A Russian princess is said to lie in a glass coffin in her opulent Paris tomb. Anyone brave enough to spend a year alone in her mausoleum ...| 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