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
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
Manhattan was to have been home to a 465-foot owl-shaped tomb. Within, chains would suspend the coffin of the fabulously rich newspaper owner ...| 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 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