The World's Most Mysterious CastlesDundurn, 16 oct. 2005 - 304 pages Castles are among the most mysterious buildings on earth. Their grimly silent stones are signposts to a past filled with high adventure, grim tragedies, and glorious victories. Ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal phenomena are frequently reported from castles. Do strange paranormal powers lurk among their ancient ruins? The World's Most Mysterious Castles takes you on a journey through hidden chambers and subterranean tunnels of castles all over the world. Their walls served the sinister needs of spies, traitors, and assassins. Do the spirits of attackers and defenders who died in long-forgotten sieges still linger where they fell? Screams of unbearable pain and despair were muffled within their deepest, darkest torture dungeons. Do they echo there still? |
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... enemy could devise . The caption above the two illustrations bore just one pungent word : PROGRESS . Perhaps the writer of the book of Ecclesiastes , all those centuries ago , had it about right with his words : “ The thing which hath ...
... enemy they sought shelter within its walls. But some castles had their darker side, and our authors have spared us none ... enemies had made sure he never would. They say she still looks over the ramparts, ever hoping but never consoled ...
... enemies. Perhaps for the Maritime Archaic Indians, the ice-cold seas were their ultimate ramparts. The mysterious ancient fortresses and castles from Central and South America pose a controversial question: were they the centre from ...
... enemies captured the castle , and for emergency escape tunnels . Tragically , many of them served savage and sinister purposes . Prisoners were thrown down into them to lie dying in the rat - infested darkness with limbs broken and ...
... who imprisoned their victims there. Yet as Byron revealed with such brilliant insight in “The Prisoner of Chillon,” there are powerful human spirits who can defy the worst that their enemies Dungeons, Darkness, and Secret Passages 35.