The Haunting of Willington Mill | The Dark Histories Podcast
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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In England, the Tyne River, famously flowing through the centre of Newcastle on its way to the North Eastern coast, has for many centuries been a vein of industry. In the early 19th Century the banks were filled with shipbuilders, rope makers and flour, grain, textile and corn mills, creaking and grinding with the constant industrial din. On the Eastern outskirts of Newcastle stood Willington Mill, a flour mill built in 1801 with a local reputation. For decades folks had talked about the old mill house, of how a witch had once lived in an old cottage on the land and of the spirit of Old Jefferey. The stories eventually seeped out into national publications after a pair of curious locals carried out an overnight vigil which ended in chaos, earning the mill the title of “most haunted house in England”, but were the stories anything more than just local rumour and legend?
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I believe we should accept these sort of first hand narrations as true at least in the mind of the narrator.
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But wonderful as always. I had heard of this mill but not the details. I can't belive in ghosts, but I do love a mystery.
I love that you were so irksome and exasperated by that book because they didnt do research in writing a book, bcz your research in making these is so thorough. That sigh in the end on the quote '.......what you don't know" 😂
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