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Forty-six-year-old resident of Liverpool Sharon Kearns visited recently with its child amusement park “Alton Towers”, located in the English county of Staffordshire. It was late and woman with five year old son stumbled upon a group paranormal researchers who have come here with to get evidence of phantoms in this theme park.
Kearns had the idea of joining the Ghostbusters. They were not opposed, although they immediately noted that, in the case of the occurrence of any unforeseen situations, the woman is obliged quickly take the boy away from them. No one suspected that Sharon will be able to capture this evening in a picture of a native of Sveta.
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According to her mother, she suddenly noticed a translucent female figure in a long dress and immediately photographed it on the phone. The ghost, to everyone’s surprise, was fixed on the image.
Park legends
“Alton Towers” has long been famous for the devilry that takes place in park after dark. The most famous ghost dwelling here is the spirit of the beggar that sent in nineteenth century curse on this earth. According to legend, in 1821 Charles Talbot, the fifteenth Earl of Shrewsbury, returned in the winter home at night, and an old woman in tatters.
The count got angry at the stranger and shouted at her, ordering get out of the way. The woman explained that she was homeless, while very cold and ate nothing for several days. Angry the nobleman asked his people to deal with the beggar, and they pushed a beggar, as a result of which she fell into the mud. Then the woman she cried out that she curses this land, and the Talbot family members will to die every time a branch falls from the nearest oak. Tradition says that on that night a branch fell off a tree during a storm, and Count’s beloved brother fell ill, and then soon went into the world different.
It is noteworthy that today this very oak is allegedly located on theme park territory. They hung chains on it, and the age-old the tree has turned into a full-fledged landmark. So Thus, the owners of “Alton Towers” have figured out how to extract from this myth certain benefits.
The realities of the damned park
However, not everything is so simple. In the park periodically occur accidents. For example, in June last year at the local two trains and five people collided were seriously injured. And in the spring of 2014 in one of ponds of the park due to an oversight of parents almost drowned a little girl. Many Britons think the old curse is to blame and refuse to visit the park, especially with their offspring.
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Sharon suggests that it was the ghost of an elderly woman who photographed the homeless woman who sent a curse to this place. Researchers of the supernatural to whom Kearns briefly sided, were very impressed with her picture and even asked permission to use the cryptic image in the next issue of the British TV show “Most Haunted”, dedicated to places in the United Kingdom inhabited by various by the fonts.
