Haunted Places

Haunted Places
ISBN: 9781782745211
Publication Date: 20 July 2017

The strange cries heard at night in a dilapidated penitentiary, the glimpse of a White Lady' floating through a graveyard, the face at the window in a room that has been locked for decades - stories of hauntings never cease to intrigue us. From palaces to prisons, from an 11th century chateau in France to 'The Island of the Dolls' in Mexico City, Haunted Places features the world's most fascinating spooky locations. Some hauntings are recent, others are ancient, but all the stories are striking: from the deceased monks who pace the boundaries of a ruined former priory, to the lift operator in a Canadian hotel still working his shift decades after he died, to the infamous Vlad the Impaler, who haunts a Romanian castle where he was imprisoned for seven years. With tales of theMad Old Woman' who searches Highgate cemetery in London for the children she suppose...