Ghosts of Caerphilly Castle

 Located in south Wales is Caerphilly Castle. One of many haunted castles, this one is picturesque and one of the biggest in the UK. Built during the 13th century by Gilbert de Clare or "Red Gilbert" as some called him. This massive castle is in Glamorgan and with a large moat filled with wildlife that is a popular tourist attraction today. While the castle is full of history it's got a dark side. 

Among the sinister goings on includes the sighting of the Gwrach y Rhibyn, or the Spirit of Rhibyn, who looks like a terrifying hag with long black hair, leathery wings and talons. This entity is an omen of death and is similar to the Banshee. Some say that she prefers water, and this castle has a large moat. She wanders around the castle and marshes, causing mist to appear while shrieking.

Another interesting thing to mention about the region is the place of full of legends, within the county of Monmouthshire. Among those are legends of King Arthur, the Cuckoos of Risca, the giant named Jack O'Kent who built Harold's Stones, tragic love stories, Saint Nicholas a.k.a. Santa Claus, fairies and dragons. Speaking of tragic love, Caerphilly Castle has one. 

The beautiful Alice of Angouleme was the wife of "Red" Gilbert de Clare. She became lonely after being abandoned by her husband so often, that she fell in love with a handsome man named Gruffudd the Fair, who was a prince of Brithdir. Their romance was in secret until one day, when he confessed to a monk about his love for Alice who was married to the neglectful Red Gilbert. The monk betrayed Gruffudd and told Red Gilbert all about it. Angry Red Gilbert sent Alice away and murdered Gruffudd. Once Alice heard about it, she either died of a broken heart or took her own life. Her spirit has appeared at the castle, always wearing green. There are many more green lady ghosts throughout the UK. These are regarded as guardians of the location they're seen. I believe that Alice has been reunited with Gruffudd and yet she's got spectral duties to fufill at the castle where she was happy with Gruffudd, and waits for his return each night. 

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Spooky quicks November 2024

The time is spooky, as we've just Halloween but the season isn't over. Today is All Saints Day, and a time to pray to deceased people and even spirits. Then there's the Day of the Dead and other ways of honouring the deceased, including ancestors. It's a creepy time when veil has lowered and mists come in. I want to catch up on more recent news of the paranormal.

For years there's been recorded eerie mysterious sounds coming from the deepest Pacific Ocean, but now scientists believe they know what it is. It's believed the sounds come from a large number of whales. It was discovered by using AI to solve recordings of these sounds. 

A winged creature has confused Bristol Zoo. CCTV night vision camera picked up a strange animal with wings and horns wandering around. The animal looks like a deer with transparent wings. 

Another Loch Ness weirdness happened twice last month. Sonar picked up an anomaly in the water that no one can explain. It was 200 metres under the water not far from the coast where the castle is. 

A few weeks ago in Illinois, a truck driver encountered the legendary Bigfoot creature. It happened last month at around 6am, as the 47 year old experienced driver travelled along a route, and he saw something strange. He described seeing a large hairy creature staring at him, and it was 8 feet tall and had glowing orange eyes. There was no other traffic around and no one else except for him and the entity. Encountering this strange creature was very unnerving. 

More next month.

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Creepy stories for Halloween

There are many stories that are creepy for Halloween. There's so many to list here so I'm sharing some of the pages of true creepy ghost stories. Various people have shared their strange chilling encounters of hauntings and ghosts. Do have a look through and enjoy being scared stiff of these stories.  

1. 12 Ghost stories for Halloween posted by Lauren Cahn at Reader's Digest. 

2. Halloween Hauntings: True Ghost stories by Kassandra Lamb at Misterio Press. 

3. 19 stories of people who lived in haunted houses by Megan Liscomb at Buzzfeed. 

4. 17 real ghost stories that will chill you to the bone by Sarah Lamire at Today.

5. 11 scary stories that will make you sleep with the light on by Nora Biette-Timmons at Jezebel. 

It's going to get darker and so put the light on if you're sharing ghost stories.

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Inassie monster

 

There is a lake monster in Japan called Inassie. It's found in the Lake Inawashiro also called "Heavenly Mirror Lake", which is picturesque. It isn't far from Fukushima, a creepy haunted location that was once thriving. That place experienced horror on a fateful day in 2011 after a string of disasters caused sad losses of life from an earthquake, then a tsunami and followed by a nuclear accident. This place is well known for ghosts and hauntings. It's been reported that strange shadows have been seen on the beach, while many taxi drivers have encountered spirits of the deceased who seem confused. Many of these stories are found in the book "Ghosts of the Tsunami" by Richard Lloyd Parry. 

Inassie is a sea monster found in Lake Inawashiro, first seen in 1993. Described as 13 metres long, and resembling a plesiosaur. A plesiosaur was a marine reptile that comes from the age of dinosaurs, who thrived in the sea for a very long time from the Mesozoic era up until the Cretaceous era. They went extinct during the K-Pg event (a mass extinction caused by an impact on Earth 66 million years ago that wiped out 75% of species). 

Bones of a plesiosaur were found in the location of Lake Inawashiro, causing people to be convinced that this is the identity of the Inassie being real, although a member of its family. Someone was doubtful, as a cryptid researcher named Takeshi Nakazawa didn't share the same enthusiasm, and pointed out that Plesiosaur became extinct 66 million years ago while the Lake Inawashiro was formed only 20 thousand years ago. Sceptics have said the likeliest for the Inassie to be is a turtle. 

Many have said that this and loads of other lake monsters worldwide look like plesiosaurs. Another weird story in 1977 when a rotting dead 30ft unknown creature was found by Japanese fishermen. They took photos of it and then threw it back into the sea as they didn't want to contaminate the fish. Many have said that the gruesome corpse was a basking shark but after seeing the creature's remains, and that of a shark, it doesn't add up. After so many years people are still debating about what it is. This is called the Zuiyo Maru carcass.   

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