Yesterday was the anniversary of when John Snow had the realisation that
this public water pump was promoting the spread of cholera, and so took
action and removed the handle (8th September 1854).

Although it is dark, you can see there is no handle on the pump.

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Alternative petshop in Greenwich village in NYC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7662627.stm

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Monkey waiter serves restaurant guests.

The really strange thing about it is that the restauarant staff in Japan always applaud the customer when they leave - i wonder if Manuel can do that??

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A bit disturbing. Two women, twin sisters, run out in front of incoming traffic.

Very very strange.

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...the first ghostly incident happened on the night they moved in: "We were all sitting downstairs watching TV when we heard a knock on the wall and a man's voice say 'hello, is anybody there?'.
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"When I went to check, there was nobody there and the door was locked. There was no way anyone could have got in."

For several months things remained quiet, but in April Mr Rashid says one of the maids saw a grey figure sitting on her bed.

"She was so frightened she collapsed," he said. "Then members of my family started seeing things."

He claims that things began to get really scary when the ghosts started to take on the form of his children.

On one occasion his wife saw one of their daughters sitting in a front room but when she went to her bedroom she was in there sound asleep.

"I get goose bumps just thinking about it," he said. "I never believed in stuff like this before, but I do now."

"After failing to sell the property Mr Rashid - who owns a chain of nursing homes in the county, a hotel in Dubai and 26 other properties - said: "The only way forward was not to pay the mortgage and hope that the bank would repossess."

The house was eventually repossessed on Thursday."

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Christchurch Spitalfields was designed by the great architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. It is said that he was a mason and occultist who was secretly obsessed with 'divine geometry'. Hawksmoor planned 5 churches which would mark each point of a pentagram. It is rumoured that the victims of Jack the Ripper were used as a blood sacrifice to pour on the foundation stones of these buildings. The Ten Bells pub is immediately beside the church which is meant to be where Jack the Ripper stalked his victims.

Christchurch and Shoreditch church are the only two which were finally constructed, but spookily, neither church has any kind of crucifix or any other christian symbols on the building.

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This is the most haunted house in London. Check it out and knock on the door if you dare!


Charles Harper in Haunted Houses, published in 1907 stated that “… It seems that a Something or Other, very terrible indeed, haunts or did haunt a particular room. This unnamed Raw Head and Bloody Bones, or whatever it is, has been sufficiently awful to have caused the death, in convulsions, of at least two foolhardy persons who have dared to sleep in that chamber…” One of them was a nobleman, who scoffing at tales that a hideous entity was residing within the haunted room, vowed to spend the night there. It was agreed, however, that should he require assistance he would ring the servants’ bell to summon his friends. So saying, he retired for the night. A little after midnight there was a faint ring, which was followed by a ferocious peeling of the bell. Rushing upstairs, the friends threw open the door, and found their companion, rigid with terror, his eyes bulging from their sockets. He was unable to tell them what he had seen, and such was the shock to his system, that he died shortly afterwards.

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Extract cited from Richard Jones's Walking Tours

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