Monsters youd find in a abandoned castle
He was, at the time, the Earl of Chester. But later on he escaped and was never seen again."īuilt on land held by the Earls of Chester as far back as the 11 th Century, Chartley Castle was constructed to the orders of Ranulph Blundeville.
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Eventually he came back of his own free will. He was allowed to go into the sea, strongly guarded with three lines of nets, but he dived under the nets and came up again and again.
He sought his bed at sunset and always remained there until sunrise. He would not talk, even when tortured and hung up by his feet, Brought into church, he showed no sign of reverence or belief. He eagerly ate whatever was brought to him, but if it was raw he pressed it between his hands until all the juice was expelled. He was naked and was like a man in all his members, covered with hair and with a long shaggy beard. Chronicled in the year 1200, and in the pages of Chronicon Anglicanum, there is this fascinating story: "In the time of King Henry II, when Bartholomew de Glanville was in charge of the castle at Orford, it happened that some fishermen fishing in the sea there caught in their nets a Wildman. Now, let's take a look at the monster of Orford Castle, which is located in Suffolk, England. Such is the way the rumor-mill can distort strange and decades-old events. Nevertheless, it didn't stop a distasteful story circulating that there was a "monster" on the loose. It a condition that causes excess amounts of hair to grow on the face and body. Jon came to the conclusion that, after all of his investigations, the mysterious figure was actually someone with hypertrichosis. It involved a hair-covered man who seen roaming around the woods surrounding the old castle. As is noted at the Historic Data website: "It was built by Sir Philip Courtenay in the 14th century and, despite many alterations and additions to adapt the Castle to changing times, Philip and his many descendants would undoubtedly still recognize it today." In the early 1980s, Jon Downes - who runs the Center for Fortean Zoology - investigated a story that stretched back to the Second World War. I'll begin with Powerdham Castle in the county of Devon. Let's take a look at the data relating to this odd phenomenon. It's a fact (a very weird fact, I should stress) that sightings of strange creatures have occurred in the direct vicinity of old English castles.