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Llancaiach Fawr Manor

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Llancaiach Fawr Manor is a Tudor manor house that dates back to the 1500s. Located in the town of Treharris, Wales; Llancaiach Fawr Manor is thought to be one of the most important Gentry houses to have survived from the 1500s. The Manor is also thought to be one of the top ten most haunted houses in the UK. The spirits include children, a man in black, plus what is thought to be the spirit of a previous owner who met King Charles the first in this location before fighting against him in the English Civil War.  History Llancaiach Fawr Manor was thought to have been built during 1530. I've found some sources saying it was built by Dafydd ap Richard, and I've found others saying it was built for Dafydd. As I've found no information on a builder, I can only assume it was built by Dafydd and that he then resided here. While the Time Team conducted excavations here during 2010, they carried out tree ring dating which suggested a felling date of between 1548 and 1565

Journal Entry 3

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16/01/22 The time is 14:39 so this will not be a long entry due to only having five minutes of my break left. I was reading through my notes when an interesting thought on angels and demons came to me. Perhaps 'angels' are spirits who use positive energy for power and 'demons' are spirits who use negative energy for power? The 'heaven' and 'hell' ideas could merely reflect the tone of environment the spirit prefers to dwell in.  Heaven and hell, along with angels and demons, seem unlikely to exist in a literal sense. The only way they can exist like that are if they reside within a seperate, mostly unobservable, dimension and if portals do indeed exist.  Things to look into: .  Religious Mythology .  Dimensions .  Quantum Physics? .  Mirrors My Present Thoughts As you can see from the date of the journal entry written above, it was a while ago that I wrote that. I still agree with what I wrote there, and so do still think angels and demons ar

The Station Hotel

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A location that boasts far more hauntings than it does history, The Station Hotel seems an unlikely candidate to be known as one of the most haunted hotels in the UK. Many famous faces, such as Tommy Cooper, have stayed in this hotel over the years; but it isn't the celebrities which are said to haunt the hotel. Instead, the hotel holds a legend about the murder of a maid; and it is both her and her killer who are said to haunt the location, along with two children. Plenty of poltergeist activity is said to occur here, along with apparitions in a few of the bedrooms.  History The Station Hotel, now known as The Station Hotel and Banqueting, is located in Dudley; a town, in the Midlands, which is northwest of Birmingham, England. The area is also known as 'The Black Country' due to Dudley's history of being both a mining area and an industrial area. The black soot from the coal industry is what provided the nickname for the area. The area was proficient in ch

Harry Houdini

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Harry Houdini is arguably the most well known magician to have lived, and has significant ties to the paranormal world; both through his own acts of exposing fraudulent psychic mediums, and through the pursuit others have undergone in contacting Houdini's spirit. In life, Houdini travelled the world performing escape acts for public crowds along with for royalty. One of his most impressive acts was in making an elephant disappear. Houdini's friendship with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a large factor in what brought him to moving his gaze from escape acts to exposing the spiritualism movement of the time as being led by fraud. Following Houdini's death, many people have tried searching for Houdini's ghost; and one psychic managed to successfully share a secret code Houdini had created, in order to prove life after death, to Houdni's wife. Houdini séances have occured each year, and there are a number of locations suspected to be haunted by the ghost of Harry