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And there was a show on YTV a year or so ago where a family went in overnight with cameras (still and video), maps and "objectives". It was called "The Scariest Places on Earth - Chillingham Castle (The Olson Family)", and man oh man...It freaked the FUCK out of me...Apparently there's a DVD of the series, but I don't know what's on it... |
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Brave the Torture Chamber and Dungeon!A visit to the Torture Chamber is not for the faint hearted. It displays some interesting and gruesome (no longer used!) implements of punishment, including a stretching rack, a bed of nails, a nailed barrel and a spiked chair labelled with a warning not to sit on it!
The serene face of the Iron Maiden with its horrible, larger than life size hinged metal casing for a live body, and the thumb screws, chains, leg irons, cages, man traps and branding irons cry out of a world long past in this country, if not elsewhere in the world. The castle Dungeon, lighted only by a narrow slit in the thick wall, is marked with the crudely-cut scribbled letters of previous unhappy prisoners. There is a trap-door in the floor through which can be seen the very genuine bones of a child in the vault below. I'm SOOO going there!!! you can actually stay in that place 4 nights, http://www.chillingham-castle.com/holidays_castles.htm and you're even allowed to go to the dungeon in the middle of the night!!! if that isn't scary tell me what is |
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I live in an area where a lot of castles were built for protection of the nobel families....
Actually, tonite i am gonna have my grad dinner in such a castle.. http://www.schloss-goldrain.com/burgenschloesser/eng/ There are some of the castles in South Tyrol on this page here, just click on each if you want to see pics. |
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Yup. I went around this time last year. Took a day trip down to see it when I was staying in Munich.
It hailed on my the whole way up the hill. :p But I was lucky that it got sunny enough to get a good view of the whole countryside once I got to the top though. Bavaria is just beautiful. |