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
London's Kensal Green Cemetery is linked to a macabre ghost legend. A wealthy publisher stumbles upon the grave of a long-abandoned lover ...| 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
The British Museum houses a 'cursed mummy' blamed for sicknesses, deaths & even sinking the Titanic. Once a princess & priestess of Amen-Ra ..| 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
Mother Damnable was a notorious witch whose cottage stood where Camden Town Station is now located. The Devil was seen entering her house ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen