The True Paranormal

Leicester Guildhall, located in Leicester, England, is Leicester's oldest civil building and dates back to medieval times. This location has served a number of purposes since it's construction around the year of 1390. These purposes include being Leicester's Town Hall, an entertainment space, a library, a school, a museum, and it served as Leicester's first police station. Despite the hall's historical importance, there were considerations around destroying it during the year of 1876. Luckily, the location was saved and has since been listed as a protected building with it currently being predominantly used as a museum and entertainment space.  With a location this old, it's expected that there are tales of spirits haunting the location. The common word is that the Leicester Guildhall has five resident spirits, although over five spirits have been listed as haunting the building. The commonly reported spirits are a white lady, a monk, a soldier, a po...

The Crying Boy paintings have been subject to much speculation, rumour, and imagination ever since a media frenzy during the 1980s catapulted them into the public spotlight. Thought to be the cause of supernatural fires across the UK, a wave of what can be interpreted as mass hysteria gripped the UK. The phenomena of these fires became known as a curse, and the media storm resulted in a mass burning of these prints on the Halloween of 1985. Since the 1980s, the story of this painting and the artist behind it have evolved through both the publication of a book and the creation of the internet. Today, multiple interpretations of the curse exist as do rumours about who the artist was and what led to these paintings alledgedly being cursed.  History     The original Crying Boy painting was painted by a 'G. Bragolin'. Very little seems to be known about this artist, and when researching him the results are quite muddied. His full name is said to be 'Giovanni Bragol...

A dockyard has existed at Chatham since the 1500s, however none of those old tutor structures survive today. A dockyard has existed on the current Chatham Historic Dockyard site, located in Kent, England, since the 1600s. The Chatham Dockyard has been a major part in the Royal Navy given it's status as a Royal Dockyard. Two ships built in Chatham fought against the Spanish Armada during 1588, and Admiral Nelson's flagship which fought at the Battle of Trafalgar was built here. As the ships became too big for Chatham, this dockyard found it's purpose go from building battleships to building submarines; and so it gained a specialism in submarine construction.  For both world wars, Chatham returned to being a fleet base with new Royal Naval Barracks being constructed to the east of the Victorian Dockyard extension. These Chatham Division men saw conflict through both world wars during conflicts such as Gallipoli and the Somme. Following 1956, Chatham became home to...