Have you lived somewhere with a secret / dark past?
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Ayahuasca said:
LimaDelta said:
SpunkyGlory said:
Saleen836 said:
Growing up I lived in Westbury (Wiltshire) and during my early teens with a population of approx 8k people, the town had a higher murder rate than New York City!
There was 3 or 4 murders within a 6 month period
I'm pretty sure NY has more than 4 murders in 6 months.There was 3 or 4 murders within a 6 month period
Not so much dark as semi-secret.
I used to manage and live in a huge mansion house on the River Dart in South Devon. During WWII next door (Agatha Christies house) was used to house Officers as part of operation tiger (practice D-Day landings). Our place was also used but not recorded, we understand by the US military.
Over the time we were there we had several visits by families from the US, all nice and pleasant, looking round the grounds etc. Then a bus load turned up a year or two later, then a TV crew etc etc
Turns out there were numerous unmarked graves in the grounds of the house. US special forces killed in the practice landings. According to the visitors the information was only being released 50+ years on. We even had a team from France/Belgium who specialised in finding war graves. I learned enough from them to identify 6 more graves in our garden after they left.
Sombre stuff.
I used to manage and live in a huge mansion house on the River Dart in South Devon. During WWII next door (Agatha Christies house) was used to house Officers as part of operation tiger (practice D-Day landings). Our place was also used but not recorded, we understand by the US military.
Over the time we were there we had several visits by families from the US, all nice and pleasant, looking round the grounds etc. Then a bus load turned up a year or two later, then a TV crew etc etc
Turns out there were numerous unmarked graves in the grounds of the house. US special forces killed in the practice landings. According to the visitors the information was only being released 50+ years on. We even had a team from France/Belgium who specialised in finding war graves. I learned enough from them to identify 6 more graves in our garden after they left.
Sombre stuff.
SimonTheSailor said:
What were the happenings ?
Look up Borley Rectory...Her memories were sheets being ripped off her bed, things being thrown all around the bedroom and stuff like that and regularly! She must have been about 15-17 at the time I think she was a friend of the family (Revd Bull?) she went on to be a big honcho at the British Embassy in Japan and very straight talking. To her it was something that just ‘happened when I was a girl’.
If we are including within the surrounding area as opposed to simply your property then I grew up within a mile one of the earliest specialist isolation hospitals for people with deadly diseases.
The site became known as Smallpox Hill. Luckily only a few miles down the road in Berkeley a Mr Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox and the disease was eradicated.
This has not changed the local perception of the hill, it creeps people out. Very rarely will anyone (locals or tourists) venture up to the top which has created a completely natural/wild area with little evidence of the old buildings. In contrast the two peaks across the valley barely a quarter of a mile are far more popular and sadly show enormous amounts of wear with one hill now having a terrible concrete path going up one side of it - ruined a good mountain bike trail
The site became known as Smallpox Hill. Luckily only a few miles down the road in Berkeley a Mr Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox and the disease was eradicated.
This has not changed the local perception of the hill, it creeps people out. Very rarely will anyone (locals or tourists) venture up to the top which has created a completely natural/wild area with little evidence of the old buildings. In contrast the two peaks across the valley barely a quarter of a mile are far more popular and sadly show enormous amounts of wear with one hill now having a terrible concrete path going up one side of it - ruined a good mountain bike trail
A house close to where i live was the setting of a tragic result of a wife's affair.
When the husband found out he killed the kids and then his wife and then went on the run for abit before being caught.
Was up for sale for a long time. Now apparently somebody lives there.. not for me though.
When the husband found out he killed the kids and then his wife and then went on the run for abit before being caught.
Was up for sale for a long time. Now apparently somebody lives there.. not for me though.
Can’t remeber if I’ve posted this before but there were a few hung, drawn and quartered at the end of our road and it was the local area for folks to “duke it out” so to speak.
Our house in particular was named in the court case of the areas biggest drug king pin as he apparently tried to buy it using a high percentage of cash when it was last for sale!
Our house in particular was named in the court case of the areas biggest drug king pin as he apparently tried to buy it using a high percentage of cash when it was last for sale!
aka_kerrly said:
If we are including within the surrounding area as opposed to simply your property then I grew up within a mile one of the earliest specialist isolation hospitals for people with deadly diseases.
The site became known as Smallpox Hill. Luckily only a few miles down the road in Berkeley a Mr Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox and the disease was eradicated.
This has not changed the local perception of the hill, it creeps people out. Very rarely will anyone (locals or tourists) venture up to the top which has created a completely natural/wild area with little evidence of the old buildings. In contrast the two peaks across the valley barely a quarter of a mile are far more popular and sadly show enormous amounts of wear with one hill now having a terrible concrete path going up one side of it - ruined a good mountain bike trail
That's fascinating! My wife's family are related to Edward Jenner apparently.. we have a portrait upstairs that is meant to be him.. I'm not sure but there are others in the inlaws attic that look more like him I think. I never knew about Smallpox Hill.. goes off to Google it..The site became known as Smallpox Hill. Luckily only a few miles down the road in Berkeley a Mr Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox and the disease was eradicated.
This has not changed the local perception of the hill, it creeps people out. Very rarely will anyone (locals or tourists) venture up to the top which has created a completely natural/wild area with little evidence of the old buildings. In contrast the two peaks across the valley barely a quarter of a mile are far more popular and sadly show enormous amounts of wear with one hill now having a terrible concrete path going up one side of it - ruined a good mountain bike trail
21TonyK said:
Not so much dark as semi-secret.
I used to manage and live in a huge mansion house on the River Dart in South Devon. During WWII next door (Agatha Christies house) was used to house Officers as part of operation tiger (practice D-Day landings). Our place was also used but not recorded, we understand by the US military.
Over the time we were there we had several visits by families from the US, all nice and pleasant, looking round the grounds etc. Then a bus load turned up a year or two later, then a TV crew etc etc
Turns out there were numerous unmarked graves in the grounds of the house. US special forces killed in the practice landings. According to the visitors the information was only being released 50+ years on. We even had a team from France/Belgium who specialised in finding war graves. I learned enough from them to identify 6 more graves in our garden after they left.
Sombre stuff.
Aah, the place you get to on the Paignton and Dartmouth Railway? I've not got off there when on the train, but we have family in the area and I heard them telling part of this story to someone at party last yearI used to manage and live in a huge mansion house on the River Dart in South Devon. During WWII next door (Agatha Christies house) was used to house Officers as part of operation tiger (practice D-Day landings). Our place was also used but not recorded, we understand by the US military.
Over the time we were there we had several visits by families from the US, all nice and pleasant, looking round the grounds etc. Then a bus load turned up a year or two later, then a TV crew etc etc
Turns out there were numerous unmarked graves in the grounds of the house. US special forces killed in the practice landings. According to the visitors the information was only being released 50+ years on. We even had a team from France/Belgium who specialised in finding war graves. I learned enough from them to identify 6 more graves in our garden after they left.
Sombre stuff.
a tenant recently killed his missus at the base of my stairs during sadomasochistic sex involving a hoover, a tub of carpet cleaning fluid and bleach to get the blood off her face..... does that count?
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/joh...
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/joh...
another one. a mate recently brought (for a song..) the infamous farm where carl bridgwater was murdered 40 years ago
smart move i reckon, sooner or later the memory will fade and it'll be worth a fortune
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/carl-bridgew...
smart move i reckon, sooner or later the memory will fade and it'll be worth a fortune
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/carl-bridgew...
Shakermaker said:
Aah, the place you get to on the Paignton and Dartmouth Railway? I've not got off there when on the train, but we have family in the area and I heard them telling part of this story to someone at party last year
The whole area around Slapton Sands was sealed off and taken over by the US Army to practice for D-Day and the locals evacuated. The German navy caught a whiff of something going on and torpedoed some of the landing craft with the loss of over 700 soldiers and navy men. The shore defences were using live ammunition for realism, and they accidentally shelled and shot at some of the first landing craft too. The number of casualties is thought to be much higher but due to secrecy around the exercise to protect invasion plans, and tdue to he lack of official records, the final number has never been confirmed.
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