JM William Turner, the famous storm painter we already talked about in Mysterious , was the one who represented this ghostly castle on a canvas like nobody else, the one who heads this article.Mists and that moss ascending like green claws through the walls of this construction, already give us a very real picture of what is really locked inside.
We are in Northumberland , an area of the United Kingdom known above all for its medieval past, and for its large number of castles.However, one of the oldest while visited is the Alnwick Castle .Do you know why? Because around this stage a vampire used to be around, but he was not just any vampire at all.It was a hunchbacked vampire that stalked the peasants in the area and the Percy, that lineage of Alnwick Castle.
We are sure that this story is going to take more than one chill out of you.
But let's go to history now, to the dark legend that is contained in this wonderful scenario while disturbing.Do we have reliable sources about what happened in Alnwick Castle? What remains today are the interesting chronicles of William of Newburgh , a historian who in the twelfth century wrote the book "History rerum Anglicarum", where with another researcher called Geoffrey de Monmouth. Both described the unique events that spun in that darkest and least known past of Alnwick Castle and the Percy family.
Attractions in Alnwick Castle to attract tourists
Both authors point out that around this The stage used to appear at night a skeletal and ghostly figure that attacked the peasants.It was transmitted diseases, and many died within a few weeks of weakness."Due to lack of blood." Later, this being nocturnal began to stalk the Percy too.It was then that he decided to look for the origin of this nocturnal violence, putting vigilantes around the castle and in the houses of the peasants.Do you guess what the result was? It was discovered that just when the sun was hiding from the horizon, a human figure appeared, arriving from the cemetery.He was thin as a reed and carried a striking hump on his back .And his gait were tremulous as an old crackling branch with a night breeze.
Plague and tuberculosis were taking much of the population, but only in the vicinity of Alnwick Castle.The calamity, the tragedy and the misery already reached an unacceptable extreme, so it was the people of the town who took justice for their part.They went to the cemetery, approaching specifically towards the family part destined to the nobility of the castle It was there where they found the corpse of one of the ancestors of the Percy, an almost incorrupt body but "full of fresh blood" , and that also showed a striking hump.It was him.There was the vampire.They dismembered him with a beak and shovel, then burn his remains and scatter them at a crossroads .
It was just as the plagues, diseases, and night terrors are over.popular that only the castle family and the current Alnwick owners , actually know who that man was who for some reason, chose to circumvent the rest of the dead and hover around his property to bring the disaster...
Image: Thirsty Robot, Jannis Andrija Schnitzer, Maggie Stephens, Verity Cridland
We are in Northumberland , an area of the United Kingdom known above all for its medieval past, and for its large number of castles.However, one of the oldest while visited is the Alnwick Castle .Do you know why? Because around this stage a vampire used to be around, but he was not just any vampire at all.It was a hunchbacked vampire that stalked the peasants in the area and the Percy, that lineage of Alnwick Castle.
We are sure that this story is going to take more than one chill out of you.
The Alnwick Castle night rover
To lovers of the saga of Harry Potter would like to know that this castle was used several times to shoot the films, using both the interior and exterior.In the "Philosopher's Stone" , you can see for example Harry receiving classes in this On the other hand, all those who follow the series «Downton Abbey» , this castle will also be known.
But let's go to history now, to the dark legend that is contained in this wonderful scenario while disturbing.Do we have reliable sources about what happened in Alnwick Castle? What remains today are the interesting chronicles of William of Newburgh , a historian who in the twelfth century wrote the book "History rerum Anglicarum", where with another researcher called Geoffrey de Monmouth. Both described the unique events that spun in that darkest and least known past of Alnwick Castle and the Percy family.
Attractions in Alnwick Castle to attract tourists
Both authors point out that around this The stage used to appear at night a skeletal and ghostly figure that attacked the peasants.It was transmitted diseases, and many died within a few weeks of weakness."Due to lack of blood." Later, this being nocturnal began to stalk the Percy too.It was then that he decided to look for the origin of this nocturnal violence, putting vigilantes around the castle and in the houses of the peasants.Do you guess what the result was? It was discovered that just when the sun was hiding from the horizon, a human figure appeared, arriving from the cemetery.He was thin as a reed and carried a striking hump on his back .And his gait were tremulous as an old crackling branch with a night breeze.
Plague and tuberculosis were taking much of the population, but only in the vicinity of Alnwick Castle.The calamity, the tragedy and the misery already reached an unacceptable extreme, so it was the people of the town who took justice for their part.They went to the cemetery, approaching specifically towards the family part destined to the nobility of the castle It was there where they found the corpse of one of the ancestors of the Percy, an almost incorrupt body but "full of fresh blood" , and that also showed a striking hump.It was him.There was the vampire.They dismembered him with a beak and shovel, then burn his remains and scatter them at a crossroads .
It was just as the plagues, diseases, and night terrors are over.popular that only the castle family and the current Alnwick owners , actually know who that man was who for some reason, chose to circumvent the rest of the dead and hover around his property to bring the disaster...
Image: Thirsty Robot, Jannis Andrija Schnitzer, Maggie Stephens, Verity Cridland
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